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This paper estimates a structural model of job search which accounts for utility costs and benefits linked to mandatory reemployment programs. The estimation uses data from a randomized experiment which generates exogenous variation in the threat of program participation. I use the compensating...
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) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations, employment, and postunemployment … intensive carrots and sticks regimes each reduce unemployment durations, but with carrots regimes this raises earnings whereas …
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This paper analyses data from a large-scale field experiment where unemployed workers were randomly assigned to an additional caseworker meeting with the purpose to impose a broader job search strategy. We find that the meeting significantly increases job finding and is cost effective. However,...
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increased probability that employed workers become unemployed and with a reduction in worker flows from unemployment to …
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increase both youth and old age unemployment. This happens because unions react strategically, and respond to higher firing … participate in the labour market both when young and old. Each generation of workers is represented by its own union. Unions set … unemployment and decrease old age unemployment. However, once we take the wage response into account, we find that firing costs …
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In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …
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The systematic use of experience rating is an original feature of the U.S. unemployment benefit system. In most states …, unemployment benefits are financed by taxing firms in proportion to their separations. Experience rating is a way to require … employers to contribute to the payment of unemployment benefits they create through their firing decisions. It is striking that …
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The systematic use of experience rating is an original feature of the U.S. unemployment benefit system. In most states …, unemployment benefits are financed by taxing firms in proportion to their separations. Experience rating is a way to require … employers to contribute to the payment of unemployment benefits they create through their firing decisions. It is striking that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320411
In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014161382
In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001483257