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Working to get fired? : regression discontinuity effects of unemployment benefit eligibility on prior employment duration

Martins, Pedro S. - 2016

In most countries, the unemployed are entitled to unemployment benefits only if they have previously worked a minimum period of time. This institutional feature creates a sharp change at eligibility in the disutility from unemployment and may distort the duration of jobs. In this paper, we...

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Lump-sum severance grants and the duration of unemployment

Andersson, Josefine - 2018

The well-known positive relationship between the unemployment benefit level and unemployment duration can be separated into two potential sources; a moral hazard effect, and a liquidity effect pertaining to the increased ability to smooth consumption. The latter is a socially optimal response...

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Moral hazard, optimal unemployment insurance, and aggregate dynamics

Veracierto, Marcelo - 2022

In this paper, I explore how optimal aggregate dynamics can be shaped by the presence of moral hazard in unemployment insurance. I also analyze the optimal provision of unemployment insurance and the implications for the amount of cross-sectional heterogeneity. The economy that I consider embeds...

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Generosity versus duration trade-off and the optimization ability of the unemployed

Khoury, Laura - 2019

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Unemployment insurance savings accounts in Latin America: Overview and assessment

Ferrer, Ana M.; Riddell, W. Craig - 2011

The unemployment protection systems that exist in most Latin American economies are generally considered inadequate in terms of providing insurance to workers. They may also encourage stratified labor markets and impose barriers to the employee's mobility and the firm's adjustment to changing...

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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016

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The impact of short- and long-term participation tax rates on labor supply

Bartels, Charlotte; Pestel, Nico - 2015

. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take … up work. Using German microdata over the period 1993 - 2010 we find that recent reforms in Germany increased work … incentives at the extensive margin measured by the Participation Tax Rate (PTR), particularly for low income individuals. Work …

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The impact of short- and long-term participation tax rates on labor supply

Bartels, Charlotte; Pestel, Nico - 2015

. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take … up work. Using German microdata over the period 1993-2010 we find that recent reforms in Germany increased work … incentives at the extensive margin measured by the Participation Tax Rate (PTR), particularly for low-income individuals. Work …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295803

Long-term participation tax rates

Bartels, Charlotte - 2013

incentives for the lowskilled and to increase durations of unemployment. Standard studies measure work incentives based on annual … income concepts. This paper analyzes work incentives inherent in the German tax-benefit system when extending the time …

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Optimal unemployment insurance for older workers

Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Ménard, … - 2009

This paper shows that optimal unemployment insurance contracts are age-dependent. Older workers have only a few years left on the labor market prior to retirement. This short horizon implies a more digressive replacement ratio. However, there is a sufficiently short distance to retirement for...

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