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Nekoei, Arash; Weber, Andrea - 2015

insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression … balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening … both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by …

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