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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 … duration of individuals entering UI after the reform. Among individuals who got treated at later stages of their unemployment …

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Reciprocity and the interaction between the unemployed and the caseworker

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Kesternich, Iris; Müller, Gerrit - 2020

We investigate how negatively reciprocal traits of unemployed individuals interact with "sticks" policies imposing constraints on individual job search effort in the context of the German welfare system. For this we merge survey data of long-term unemployed individuals, containing indicators of...

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A structural analysis of mental health and labor market trajectories

Jolivet, Grégory; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - 2020

We conduct a joint dynamic analysis of individual labor market and mental health outcomes. We allow for a two-way interaction between work and mental health. We model selection in and out of employment as well as between jobs on a labor market with search frictions, where we account for the...

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Do neighbors help finding a job? : social networks and labor market outcomes after plant closures

Jahn, Elke J.; Neugart, Michael - 2017

Social networks may affect workers' labor market outcomes. Using rich spatial data from administrative records, we analyze whether the employment status of neighbors influences the employment probability of a worker who lost his job due to a plant closure and the channels through which this...

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Reciprocity and the interaction between the unemployed and the caseworker

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Kesternich, Iris; Müller, Gerrit - 2019

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Reciprocity and the interaction between the unemployed and the caseworker

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Kesternich, Iris; Müller, Gerrit - 2019

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Does job search assistance reduce unemployment? : experimental evidence on displacement effects and mechanisms

Cheung, Maria; Egebark, Johan; Forslund, Anders; Laun, Lisa - 2019

assistance. Our findings show that the assistance reduces unemployment among the treated, but also creates substantial … displacement leading to higher unemployment for the non-treated. By using detailed information on caseworker and job seeker … unemployment and slightly reduced government spending. …

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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 … over the first two months of unemployment. Treatment effects on the reservation wage are positive but statistically …

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Labor market frictions and moving costs of the employed and unemployed

Ransom, Tyler - 2019

This paper examines the role of labor market frictions and moving costs in explaining the migration behavior of US workers by employment status. Using data on low-skilled workers from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), I estimate a dynamic model of individual labor supply and...

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Job displacement and migrant labor market assimilation

Balgova, Maria; Illing, Hannah - 2023

This paper sheds new light on the barriers to migrants' labor market assimilation. Using administrative data for Germany from 1997-2016, we estimate dynamic difference-in-differences regressions to investigate the relative trajectory of earnings, wages, and employment following mass layoff...

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