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Opening the blackbox : how does labor market policy affect the job seekers' behavior? ; a field experiment

Arni, Patrick - 2015

Empirically, not much is known about the mechanisms how labor market programs like job search assistance and training operate to support finding a job. This paper provides novel evidence to open the "blackbox": it causally links the program interventions to the dynamics of search behavior,...

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Optimal unemployment insurance with monitoring and sanctions

Boone, Jan; Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil; Ours, … - 2001

This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search e¤ort among the unemployed is not perfectly observable. We examine to what extent the optimal policy involves monitoring of search effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is...

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

Schiprowski, Amelie - 2017

Caseworkers are the main human resource 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 an early meeting with their caseworker stay on … caseworkers: the effect of a foregone meeting doubles for caseworkers in the highest productivity tercile, while it is zero for …

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Labor market effects of unemployment insurance design

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; van Ours, Jan C. - 2012

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate. In this paper, we review the recent theoretical and empirical evidence on the labor market effects of UI design. We also discuss policy issues related to UI design, including...

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Is longer unemployment rewarded with longer job tenure?

Kohara, Miki; Sasaki, Masaru; Machikita, Tomohiro - 2012

This paper examines whether or not a prolonged unemployment period can raise the quality of job matching after unemployment. We focus on job tenure as an indicator of a good quality job match after unemployment. We match two sets of Japanese administrative data compiled by the public employment...

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Optimal use of labor market policies : the role of job search assistance

Wunsch, Conny - 2010

This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation measures such as monitoring and job search assistance...

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Optimal use of labor market policies : the role of job search assistance

Wunsch, Conny - 2009

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The secular rise in unemployment insurance exhaustions and what can be done about it

Smith, Ralph E. - 2011

Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before they have found jobs, even in a strong labor market, has been gradually rising. For example, in 1973, 27.4 percent of UI recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a...

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What factors contributed to changes in employment during and after the Great Recession?

Farooq, Ammar; Kugler, Adriana D. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-28

Unemployment increased drastically over the course of the Great Recession from 4.5 percent prior to the recession to 10 percent at its peak in October 2009. Since then, the unemployment rate has come down steadily, and it stood at 5.8 percent in November 2014. Based on existing analyses and some...

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The effect of extended unemployment benefit on the job finding hazards : a quasi-experiment in Japan

Machikita, Tomohiro; Kohara, Miki; Sasaki, Masaru - 2013

This paper studies how changes in extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefit affect the duration of unemployment. We investigate this question by exploiting not only strict age thresholds but also the pre-displacement tenure and the reason for separation from the previous job in the Japanese...

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