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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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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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Unemployment duration and the take-up of unemployment insurance

Blasco, Sylvie; Fontaine, François - 2021

A large fraction of the eligible unemployed workers does not claim for unemployment insurance (UI) and, among claimants, many do not register immediately upon layoff. This paper argues that, to understand this intriguing phenomenon, one needs to model jointly job search and take-up efforts and...

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How should unemployment insurance vary over the business cycle?

Birinci, Serdar; See, Kurt - 2019

We study optimal unemployment insurance (UI) over the business cycle using a heterogeneous agent job search model with aggregate risk and incomplete markets. We validate the model-implied micro and macro labor market elasticities to changes in UI generosity against existing estimates, and...

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Benefit duration and job search effort : evidence from a natural experiment

Lichter, Andreas - 2016

Findings of prolonged non-employment spells due to more generous unemployment benefits are commonly seen as an indication of reduced job search effort and moral hazard behavior. However, to date, there is hardly any direct evidence of benefit-induced reductions in search effort. This paper...

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Benefit duration, job search behavior and re-employment

Lichter, Andreas; Schiprowski, Amelie - 2020

This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects early job search behavior and re-employment outcomes. We exploit an unexpected reform of the German unemployment insurance (UI) scheme in 2008, which increased the potential benefit duration from 12 to 15 months for...

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Benefit duration, job search behavior and re-employment

Lichter, Andreas; Schiprowski, Amelie - 2020

This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects individuals’ job search behavior and re-employment outcomes. We exploit an unexpected reform of the German unemployment insurance scheme in 2008, which increased the potential benefit duration from 12 to 15 months...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012196287

The role of incomplete information in shaping policy effects : evidence from unemployment insurance

Arni, Patrick; Liu, Xingfei - 2020

Standard program evaluations implicitly assume that individuals are perfectly informed about the considered policy change and the related institutional rules. This seems not very plausible in many contexts, as diverse examples show. However, evidence on how incomplete information affects the...

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The impact of monitoring and sanctioning on unemployment exit and job-finding rates : job search monitoring and benefit sanctions generally reduce unemployment duration and boost e...

McVicar, Duncan - 2014

Unemployment benefits often reduce incentives to search for a job. Policymakers have responded to this behaviour by setting minimum job search requirements, by monitoring to check that unemployment benefit recipients are engaged in the appropriate level of job search activity, and by imposing...

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Evaluating public employment programs with field experiments : a survey of American evidence

O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2017

Research in the 1970s based on observational data provided evidence consistent with predictions from economic theory that paying unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to involuntarily jobless workers prolongs unemployment. However, some scholars also reported estimates that the additional time...

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