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The impact of the administration of unemployment benefits on time spent unemployed is a neglected issue in discussion …
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This paper studies the role of long-term unemployment in the determination of prices and wages. Labor market theories … propose a new specification of the Phillips Curve that contains different unemployment lengths in a time-varying NAIRU setting …. This is done by constructing an index of unemployment that assigns different weights to the unemployed based on the length …
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unemployment. In addition, allowance is also made to accommodate the "stayer" phenomenon in the state of employment. All these were …
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Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases …
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This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … unemployment. Although we do not reject the null of proportionality, abandoning the proportionality assumption does not materially …
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unemployment and labor market exclusion. The main findings of the study are that low levels of education and working experience are … variables are not important. There is indirect evidence of psychological damaging and/or stigma effects of unemployment and … search intensity, as unemployment spells become very long. We discuss some policy implications of our findings …
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labor force participants between employment in a full time job and being on unemployment insurance benefits and considering …-time job compared to being on unemployment benefits. The effect of these financial disincentives is analyzed in simple reduced … form models of on-the-job search, unemployed search behavior, unemployment risk, and transitions out of the labor force. We …
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There is still a lack of knowledge on how to effectively help the long-term unemployed into employment. We evaluate a wide range of active labour market policies for this target group, using a dynamic matching approach. Measures vary considerably in the extent to which they improve labour market...
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We analysed a new counselling and support programme for people with low employment prospects in Austria. The Austrian Public Employment Service introduced regional pilots to investigate whether a new counselling strategy could improve labour market outcomes for this group. Eligible unemployed...
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Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a...
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