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Do Job Search Rules and Reemployment Services Reduce Insured Unemployment?

O'Leary, Christopher J.; Wandner, Stephen A. - 2010

This paper summarizes state unemployment insurance job search policies based on a recent survey of states by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies. It then reviews research results on the effects of reemployment services on durations of insured unemployment. The paper documents...

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Safety net or helping hand? : the effect of job search assistance and compensation on displaced workers

Fackler, Daniel; Stegmaier, Jens; Upward, Richard - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023

We provide the first systematic evidence on the effectiveness of a contested policy in Germany to help displaced workers. So-called “transfer companies” (Transfergesellschaften) employ displaced workers for a fixed period, during which time workers are provided with job-search assistance and...

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Linking information on unemployment benefit sanctions from different datasets about welfare receipt : proceedings and research potential

Schmidtke, Julia - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-19

Most studies on benefit sanctions within the German welfare system rely on established datasets about welfare receipt. This paper analyzes how using a dataset from the operational system of the German Federal Employment Agency for processing welfare claims can contribute to further research on...

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Disincentive effects of unemployment benefits and the role of caseworkers

Schmieder, Johannes; Trenkle, Simon - 2016

. However, unemployed workers typically also have caseworkers assigned who are monitoring and assisting the job search efforts …. These caseworkers may respond to differences in UI eligibility by shifting resources (financial or time) between unemployed … downwards in studies that compare workers within the same UI agency. We estimate whether caseworkers respond to the generosity …

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Job search monitoring and unemployment duration in Hungary: evidence from a randomised control trial

Micklewright, John; Nagy, Gyula - 2005

The impact of the administration of unemployment benefits on time spent unemployed is a neglected issue in discussion of incentive effects in Central and Eastern Europe. We use Labour Force Survey data, administrative registers and inspection of benefit office practices to show that there is...

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Job search and job finding in a period of mass unemployment: Evidence from high-frequency longitudinal data

Krueger, Alan B.; Mueller, Andreas - 2011

This paper presents findings from a survey of 6,025 unemployed workers who were interviewed every week for up to 24 weeks in the fall of 2009 and spring of 2010. Our main findings are: (1) the amount of time devoted to job search declines sharply over the spell of unemployment; (2) the...

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Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration in Hungary: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial

Micklewright, John; Nagy, Gyula - 2005

The impact of the administration of unemployment benefits on time spent unemployed is a neglected issue in discussion of incentive effects in Central and Eastern Europe. We use Labour Force Survey data, ad-ministrative registers and inspection of benefit office practices to show that there is...

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Unemployment insurance, job search and informal employment

Margolis, David N.; Navarro, Lucas; Robalino, David A. - 2012

This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using the case of Malaysia, which today does not have such a system. The analysis is based on a job search model with unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal...

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Job search monitoring and unemployment duration in Hungary : evidence from a randomised control trial

Micklewright, John (contributor); Nagy, Gyula (contributor) - 2005

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Job search monitoring and unemployment duration in Hungary: evidence from a randosised control trial

Micklewright, John (contributor); Nagy, Gyula (contributor) - 2005

The impact of the administration of unemployment benefits on time spent unemployed is a neglected issue in discussion of incentive effects in Central and Eastern Europe. We use Labour Force Survey data, ad-ministrative registers and inspection of benefit office practices to show that there is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003435293