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The effect of benefit sanctions on the duration of unemployment
Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C. van; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002
This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss labor market allow making a distinction between the effect of a warning that a person is not complying with eligibility requirements and the effect of the actual enforcement of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410900
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Impact of welfare sanctions on employment and benefit receipt : considering top-up benefits and indirect sanctions
Hohenleitner, Ingrid; Hillmann, Katja - 2019
This comprehensive study on UB-II-sanctions in Germany, applying PSM, presents the ex-post effects of welfare sanctions on several employment states for diverse (sub-)groups of employable welfare recipients. Besides unemployed, we also regard employed, and indirectly affected household members....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977249
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How effective are unemployment benefit sanctions? Looking beyond unemployment exit
Arni, Patrick; Lalive, Rafael; van Ours, Jan C. - 2009
. In addition to that, stricter monitoring may reduce net earnings by up to 4 days of pay for every unemployed worker due …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273956
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How effective are unemployment benefit sanctions? Looking beyond unemployment exit
Arni, Patrick; Lalive, Rafael; van Ours, Jan C. - 2009
. In addition to that, stricter monitoring may reduce net earnings by up to 4 days of pay for every unemployed worker due …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276120
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The Effect of Benefit Sanctions on the Duration of Unemployment
Lalive, Rafael; van Ours, Jan C.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2021
This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss labor market allow making a distinction between the effect of a warning that a person is not complying with eligibility requirements and the effect of the actual enforcement of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320573
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Imposed benefit sanctions and the unemployment-to-employment transition: the German experience
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2008
We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine propensity score matching with a discrete-time hazard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265011
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Is longer unemployment rewarded with longer job tenure?
Kohara, Miki; Sasaki, Masaru; Machikita, Tomohiro - 2012
This paper examines whether or not a prolonged unemployment period can raise the quality of job matching after unemployment. We focus on job tenure as an indicator of a good quality job match after unemployment. We match two sets of Japanese administrative data compiled by the public employment...
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Stuck in a trap? : long-term unemployment under two-tier unemployment compensation schemes
Nagl, Wolfgang; Weber, Michael - 2016
We empirically investigate how two-tier unemployment compensation schemes affect the profile of re-employment hazards. We exploit the aggravation of an existing two-tier scheme in Germany in 2005 and estimate its impact on re-employment rates at different durations. For the short-term...
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Structural empirical evaluation of job search monitoring
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2013
monitoring, taking into account that monitoring effects may be mitigated by on-the-job search and search channel substitution … monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes. We find that the option to climb the job ladder reduces substitution between … search channels during unemployment and compensates for adverse long-run effects of monitoring on wages. We use the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212978
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Efficiency costs of unemployment insurance denial : evidence from randomly assigned examiners
Cohen, Jonathan P.; Schnorr, Geoffrey C. - 2024
Approximately 10 percent of Unemployment Insurance (UI) claimants in the United States are denied benefits after being deemed at-fault for their job loss by a government examiner. Using administrative data from California and an examiner leniency design, we estimate the causal effects of...
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