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aggregate unemployment duration data, in which we allow for unobserved heterogeneity and correlated measurement errors. We do …This paper examines the relation between individual unemployment durations and incidence on the one hand, and the time … currently unemployed. We also allow for the composition of the inflow into unemployment to depend on calendar time at the moment …
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This Paper presents new evidence on the determinants of unemployment duration for men and women in Britain in the 1990s … inactivity. The data show that the median duration of unemployment spells among men, at 5 months, is almost double that for women … analysis suggests that policies to reduce unemployment duration and encourage full-time work, especially among men, should be …
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labour market states: self-employment, employment, and unemployment. This enables us to assess the effects of changes in … unobservable individual heterogeneity, duration dependence, lagged duration dependence and state dependence. Three main results are … obtained. First, the aggregated unemployment rate is found to have a positive effect on the probability of becoming self …
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This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies...
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-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum …Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …
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Existing estimates of the annual unemployment rate from 1870 to 1913 were constructed by the Board of Trade, initially … reconstruct sectoral unemployment rates based on union records and supplement this with (crude) estimates for certain other … deviation than the Board of Trade index. The wide swings in unemployment during the 1870s are confirmed but the amplitude of …
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appears that the activation program is very effective. The median unemployment duration of the control group is 14 weeks …
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This Paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss … positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment. Moreover, the stricter the sanction policy the shorter the duration of … unemployment. This can be taken as evidence of a strong ex-ante effect of a strict sanction policy. …
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monthly employment and unemployment rates and the monthly transition intensities between the states of employment …, unemployment, and out-of-the-labor- force for the German labor market between January/February 1983 and November/December 1994. The …
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It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at the same time active labor market policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work more quickly. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigate whether there is indeed such a puzzle. First,...
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