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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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In many countries, reducing unemployment is among the most important policy goals. In this context, monitoring job …
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013429219
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242326
This paper empirically analyzes the distribution of unemployment durations in West Germany before and after the changes … during the mid 1980s in the maximum entitlement periods for unemployment benefits for elderly unemployed. The analysis is … based on the comprehensive IAB employment subsample containing register panel data for about 500,000 individuals in West …
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Im Rahmen eines Vergleichs der amerikanischen und britischen Systeme der Arbeitslosenversicherung wird gezeigt, daß das … Arbeitslosenversicherung und der Höhe der Freisetzung von Arbeitskräften aufweist ("experience rating"). Im Vereinigten Königreich gibt es … keine Arbeitslosenversicherung im herkömmlichen Sinne: Die Einkommenssicherung bei Arbeitslosigkeit erfolgt durch die …
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demografischen Wandels vorzubereiten. Die Schlüsselfunktion kommt dabei aber nicht der Reform der Instrumente der aktiven … Arbeitslosenhilfe hat sowohl für eine Beseitigung der faktischen Frühverrentungsanreize durch die Arbeitslosenversicherung als auch für …
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total number of outflows from unemployment into employment at the regional level. To answer this question, we use data for … local employment offices of the German Federal Employment Agency for the time period 2006 to 2010 and focus on job …-seekers subject to unemployment insurance. As microeconometric evaluation studies show, the search effectiveness of programme …
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unemployment-related benefits: a) unemployment insurance and re-training benefits and b) the unemloyment assistance (UA). The … evidence suggests that unemployment-related benefits are relatively well-targeted in the sense that most of this kind of income … support go to persons at the bottom of income ladder, although those in deep poverty are benefiting less. The income-redistribution …
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To finance unemployment insurance, states raise payroll tax rates on employers who engage in layoffs. Tax rates are … tax schedule. Tax hikes reduce hiring and employment substantially, with no effect on layoffs or wages. The results imply … unemployment after the Great Recession …
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