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Benefit duration, job search behavior and re-employment

Lichter, Andreas; Schiprowski, Amelie - 2020

This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects individuals’ job search behavior and re-employment outcomes. We exploit an unexpected reform of the German unemployment insurance scheme in 2008, which increased the potential benefit duration from 12 to 15 months...

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The role of incomplete information in shaping policy effects : evidence from unemployment insurance

Arni, Patrick; Liu, Xingfei - 2020

Standard program evaluations implicitly assume that individuals are perfectly informed about the considered policy change and the related institutional rules. This seems not very plausible in many contexts, as diverse examples show. However, evidence on how incomplete information affects the...

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Are sufficient statistics necessary? : nonparametric measurement of deadweight loss from unemployment insurance

Lee, David S.; Leung, Pauline; O'Leary, Christopher J.; … - 2019

Central to the welfare analysis of income transfer programs is the deadweight loss associated with possible reforms. To aid analytical tractability, its measurement typically requires specifying a simplified model of behavior. We employ a complementary "decomposition" approach that compares the...

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The effects of UI caseworkers on job search effort

Schiprowski, Amelie; Schmidtke, Julia; Schmieder, Johannes - 2024

We combine a high-frequency survey on job search effort with administrative data on caseworker interactions from the German unemployment insurance system to estimate how the dynamics of search effort respond to caseworker meetings and vacancy referrals. Meetings alone do not increase...

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A review of active and passive labour market policies in Spain

Cueto, Begoña; Patricia, Suárez - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The aim of this paper is to analyse the role of active labour market policies in Spain, focusing on the public employment service (PES), training, and employment incentives. Previously, the main features of unemployment subsidies and their connection to active policies is presented. The majority...

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Active labour market programmes for women with a partner : challenge or replication of traditional gender roles

Kopf, Eva; Zabel, Cordula - 2014

Programme der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik, wie beispielsweise Trainingsmaßnahmen oder Arbeitsgelegenheiten, in der Praxis … Programme der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik beeinflussen. Wir bilden verschiedene Haushaltsklassifikationen basierend auf dem … die Eintrittsraten in Programme der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik zwischen Frauen in Haushalten mit einem vormaligen …

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The effects of more intensive counselling for disadvantaged unemployed youth

Eppel, Rainer; Mahringer, Helmut - 2022

Many European countries are facing the key challenge of integrating low-skilled jobless young people into the labour market. From 2018 to 2020, the Public Employment Service (PES) in Vienna tested a new model of intensified support ("case management"). The target group consisted of young...

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Optimal use of labor market policies: the role of job search assistance

Wunsch, Conny - 2010

This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation measures such as monitoring and job search assistance...

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Can public works programs mitigate the impact of crises in Europe? : the case of Latvia

Azam, Mehtabul; Ferré, Céline; Ajwad, Mohamed - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-21

To mitigate the impact of the 2008–2010 global financial crisis on vulnerable households, the Government of Latvia established Workplaces with Stipends, an emergency public works program that targeted registered unemployed people who were not receiving unemployment benefits. This paper...

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Beschäftigungskonten für Deutschland

Boss, Alfred; Brown, Alessio J. G.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007 - December 2007 (this revised version)

Wir präsentieren einen Vorschlag für die Neuausrichtung der Arbeitslosenunterstützung in Deutschland: die Einführung von Beschäftigungskonten. Anstatt Steuern/Beiträge zu zahlen, die die Arbeitslosenunterstützung finanzieren, zahlen Beschäftigte laufend auf Ihre Beschäftigungskonten...

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