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In Portugal duration of benefits is exclusively age determined while replacement rates are toall intents and purposes … uniform. We exploit differences in potential maximum duration ofbenefits for nearly matched pairs of individuals who differ in … age by one year and in potentialmaximum duration of benefits by three months... …
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periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemploymentdurations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany... …
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´s institutional response to the increase in unemployment and poverty triggered by the crisis. The program provided a social safety net …
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It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at thesame time active labor market policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work morequickly. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigate whether there isindeed such a puzzle. First, we...
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log-log duration model. According to both models, theprobability of finding a job falls with the level of disability, the … age at which the individualstarts receiving disability benefits, and the increase in the local unemployment rate …
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contemporary unemployment affect a young worker’s probability ofbeing invited to a job interview. In contrast to studies using … forunobserved heterogeneity. We find no evidence that recruiting employers use informationabout past unemployment to sort workers … pastunemployment as a sorting criterion suggests that the scarring effects of unemployment maynot be as severe as has been indicated by …
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We evaluate the information content of admission conditions for study programs quality by investigating its relationship with graduates employability. We find that study programs with larger numeri clausi are associated with a higher probability of finding a job. Additionally, compulsory...
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High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well …
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The Phillips curve has flattened in Spain over 1995-2006: unemployment has fallen by 15percentage points, with roughly …
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Using a linked employer-employee dataset and taking the perspective of individuals rather than firms, this paper analyzes some effects of joining start-ups. We show that entrants in new firms differ from those joining incumbent firms, and we use a matching approach to compare a group of...
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