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How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment

Lalive, Rafael; van Ours, Jan C.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2004

This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance – the benefit replacement rate (RR) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made unemployment insurance more generous by changing,...

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Generalized Selection Bias and the Decomposition of Wage Differentials

Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999

) when the two expectations are measured using the estimates from the joint estimation of the whole model (log-wages and …-wages, where the deterministic component is computed using the estimates from the joint estimation. That is, the GSB is the … expectation of the residuals estimated from the joint estimation. It is appropriate to apply the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition …

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Immigrants and Unemployment in the European Community: From the Eyes of Natives

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...

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Decomposition Analysis for a Binary Choice Model

Yun, Myeong-Su - 2000

This paper introduces a new and simple decomposition method for a binary choice model that is equivalent to the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis for wage differentials. The decomposition method is first developed for a single probit model and later generalized to a simultaneous equations...

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The Impact of Active Labor Market Programs and Benefit Entitlement Rules on the Duration of Unemployment

Zweimüller, Josef; van Ours, Jan C.; Lalive, Rafael - 2000

Swiss policy makers created a unique link between unemployment benefits and Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) by making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on...

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Caste, Ethnicity and Poverty in Rural India

Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households is significantly higher than non-scheduled households....

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Pinning down the value of statistical life

Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, William Kip; Woock, … - 2007

Our research addresses fundamental long-standing concerns in the compensating wage differentials literature and its public policy implications: the econometric properties of estimates of the value of statistical life (VSL) and the wide range of such estimates from about $0.5 million to about $21...

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The effect of active labor market programs on not-yet treated unemployed individuals

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Bergemann, Annette; Caliendo, Marco - 2008

Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects are hard to identify without model assumptions. We develop a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job-search behavioral outcomes, like the reservation wage,...

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Sticky wages in search and matching models in the short and long run

Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2011

This paper documents the short run and long run behavior of the search and matching model with staggered Nash wage bargaining. It turns out that there is a strong tradeoff inherent in assuming that previously bargained sticky wages apply to new hires. If sticky wages apply to new hires, then the...

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The aggregate effects of long run sectoral reallocation

Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2011

In this paper, I estimate a series of long run reallocative shocks to sectoral employment using a stochastic volatility model of sectoral employment growth for the United States from 1960 through 2011. Reallocative shocks (which primarily measure construction and technology busts) have little...

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