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The costs of worker displacement in urban labor markets of China

Ge, Yuhao; Lehmann, Hartmut - In: IZA journal of labor & development 2 (2013), pp. 1-23

This paper analyzes the costs of job loss in China, using unique new data from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China (RUMIC) data set for the year 2009. We investigate conventional labor market outcomes upon displacement like the length of unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings....

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The costs of worker displacement in urban labor markets of China

Ge, Yuhao; Lehmann, Hartmut - 2013

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Do low-wage workers react less to longer unemployment benefits? : quasi-experimental evidence

Centeno, Mário; Novo, Alvaro A. - 2012

benefits entitlement period. The results point towards a hump-shape response of unemployment duration over the one-year pre …. -- unemployment insurance ; unemployment duration ; entitlement extension ; liquidity effect …

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A contribution to the empirics of reservation wages

Krueger, Alan B.; Müller, Andreas - 2014

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high‐frequency longitudinal data. Using data from our survey of unemployed workers in New Jersey, where workers were interviewed each week for up to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported...

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The effects of reducing the entitlement period to unemployment insurance benefits

Groot, Nynke de; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2014

This paper exploits a substantial reform of the Dutch UI law to study the effect of the entitlement period on job …

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Sanctions for young welfare recipients

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2013

Social welfare systems usually imply specific obligations for benefit recipients. If a recipient does not comply with these obligations, a sanction involving a punitive benefits reduction may be imposed. In this paper we give an overview of the literature on the effects of sanctions in social...

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Precaution and risk aversion : decomposing the effect of unemployment benefits on saving

Kolsrud, Jonas - 2013

that a decrease of say unemployment probability or an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) generosity affects saving not … possibility of decomposing the treatment effect of UI on asset accumulation into two parts; one part where more generous UI leads … to raised expected earnings and a second part where a more generous UI reduces the expected variation in earnings. The …

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Nonparametric instrumental variable methods for dynamic treatment evaluation

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Bonev, Petyo; Mammen, Enno - 2016

abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … additional active labor market policy measures. The estimated effect of the reform on the survival function of the duration of … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …

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Should UI benefits really fall over time?

Hassler, John; Rodríguez Mora, José Vicente - 2002

The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in an analytically tractable model allowing moral hazard, adverse selection and hidden savings. Analytical results show that when the search productivity of unemployed is constant over...

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The causal effect of unemployment duration on wages : evidence from unemployment insurance extensions

Schmieder, Johannes; Wachter, Till von; Bender, Stefan - 2014

Unemployment Insurance (UI) extensions do not affect wages conditional on the month of unemployment exit, then reservation wages do … not bind on average. Then, UI extensions affect mean wages only through unemployment durations and are valid instrumental … variables (IV). Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that UI extensions in Germany reduced job searchers …

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