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. The data are from a randomized experiment conducted in the Netherlands. They include registers of post-unemployment … monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes.We find that the option to climb the job ladder reduces substitution between … search channels during unemployment and compensates for adverse long-run effects of monitoring on wages. We use the …
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We use mean-field game theory to quantitatively compare two unemployment insurance (UI) extension policies commonly … used during recessions: raising benefit levels versus extending the duration of benefits. Our heterogenous-agent model … unemployment rates relative to a moderate, long-lived increase in benefits and (2) both policies deliver approximately the same ex …
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This paper analyses data from a large-scale field experiment where unemployed workers were randomly assigned to an additional caseworker meeting with the purpose to impose a broader job search strategy. We find that the meeting significantly increases job finding and is cost effective. However,...
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effects diminish with the elapsed unemployment duration until a sanction is imposed. The limited use of benefit sanctions can …We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people … entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine …
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; 6) time devoted to job search is fairly constant regardless of unemployment duration for those who are ineligible for UI … 50 states and D.C., job search is inversely related to the generosity of unemployment benefits, with an elasticity … of 2.5; 5) job search intensity for those eligible for Unemployment Insurance (UI) increases prior to benefit exhaustion …
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find that for beneficiaries using the SF, the pattern of job finding rates over the duration of unemployment is consistent … strong support to the idea that UISAs can improve work incentives. -- Unemployment insurance ; unemployment duration …This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program …
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We study how changes in the maximum benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment in the Netherlands. Until … disappeared. -- Unemployment insurance ; potential benefit duration ; unemployment inflow … August 2003, workers who became unemployed after age 57.5 were entitled to unemployment benefits until the age of 65, after …
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The introduction of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISA) in Chile in October 2002 introduced more … comprehensive unemployment protection while decreasing the opportunity costs of job change. Being the first to empirically … investigate the effect of UISA on employment duration, this paper examines (i) whether the introduction of UISA affected …
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This paper studies how changes in extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefit affect the duration of unemployment. We … not lead to a decrease in the jobless hazard; the duration of unemployment is not prolonged among jobseekers who have … longer maximum benefit duration. This result is robust to shorter and longer tenure before entering unemployment. The non …
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show a negative relationship between unemployment duration and the subsequent job duration. Restricting the sample to job … even greater negative effect of unemployment duration on the following job duration. The importance lies not only in the … duration of unemployment. If job seekers keep a high reservation wage and a low search intensity because of the benefits of …
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