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The effects of UI caseworkers on job search effort

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

increase in effort over the three weeks following the event. Our findings leave room for caseworkers affecting employment …

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How effective are unemployment benefit sanctions? : looking beyond unemployment exit

Arni, Patrick; Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C. van - 2009

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions ,i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment...

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How effective are unemployment benefit sanctions? : looking beyond unemployment exit

Arni, Patrick; Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C. van - 2009

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003905637

How Effective are Unemployment Benefit Sanctions? Looking Beyond Unemployment Exit

Arni, Patrick P.; Lalive, Rafael; van Ours, Jan C. - 2009

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202579

How Effective are Unemployment Benefit Sanctions? Looking Beyond Unemployment Exit

Arni, Patrick P. - 2009

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155153

The Role of Caseworkers in Unemployment Insurance : Evidence from Unplanned Absences

Schiprowski, Amelie - 2020

Caseworkers are the main human resources used to provide social services. This paper asks if, and how much, caseworkers … unplanned absences among Swiss UI caseworkers. I find that individuals who lose a meeting with their caseworker stay unemployed … 5% longer. Results show large heterogeneity in the personal impact of caseworkers: the effect of a foregone meeting is …

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Strengthening enforcement in unemployment insurance : a natural experiment

Arni, Patrick; Schiprowski, Amelie - 2016

Enforcing the compliance with job search obligations is a core task of conditional benefit systems like unemployment insurance (UI) or welfare. For targeted policy design, it is key to understand how the enforcement regime affects job search outcomes. This paper provides first estimates that...

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Unemployment benefits and job match quality : do unemployment benefits help those seeking work to obtain better jobs?

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2014

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and reducing their incentive to look for work. This trade-off between benefits and incentives is central to the public debate about extending benefit periods during the recent...

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Improving incentives in unemployment insurance : a review of recent research

Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 2003

This paper provides a review of the recent literature on how incentives in unemployment insurance (UI) can be improved. We are particularly concerned with three instruments, viz. the duration of benefit payments (or more generally the time sequencing of benefits), monitoring in conjunction with...

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Optimal unemployment insurance design : time limits, monitoring, or workfare?

Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 2003

This paper analyses crucial design features of unemployment insurance (UI) policies. We examine three different means of improving the efficiency of UI: the duration of benefit payments, monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and workfare. To that end we develop a quantitative model of...

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