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The Effect of Benefit Sanctions on the Duration of Unemployment

Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C. van; Zweimüller, Josef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss labor market allow making a distinction between the effect of a warning that a person is not complying with eligibility requirements and the effect of the actual enforcement of a...

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How Effective Are Unemployment Benefit Sanctions? Looking Beyond Unemployment Exit

Arni, Patrick; Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

. In addition to that, stricter monitoring may reduce net earnings by up to 4 days of pay for every unemployed worker due …

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Labour Market Signalling and Unemployment Duration: An Empirical Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data

Frederiksen, Anders; Ibsen, Rikke; Rosholm, Michael; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper tests the signalling hypothesis using detailed flow-based employer-employee data from Denmark. The primary focus is to explore how the conditions in the pre-displacement firm affect the duration of unemployment. The empirical analysis is conducted within a competing risk framework,...

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Structural Empirical Evaluation of Job Search Monitoring

den Berg, Gerard J. van; van der Klaauw, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

monitoring, taking into account that monitoring effects may be mitigated by on-the-job search and search channel substitution … monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes. We find that the option to climb the job ladder reduces substitution between … search channels during unemployment and compensates for adverse long-run effects of monitoring on wages. We use the …

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Is Longer Unemployment Rewarded with Longer Job Tenure?

Kohara, Miki; Sasaki, Masaru; Machikita, Tomohiro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper examines whether or not a prolonged unemployment period can raise the quality of job matching after unemployment. We focus on job tenure as an indicator of a good quality job match after unemployment. We match two sets of Japanese administrative data compiled by the public employment...

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Imposed Benefit Sanctions and the Unemployment-to-Employment Transition: The German Experience

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine propensity score matching with a discrete-time hazard...

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Low Pay as an Alternative to Public Direct Job Creation? Lessons from the German Case

Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This contribution draws some conclusions from the experience of attempts by the German government at integrating the most vulnerable groups into the labor market, in particular the long-term unemployed and the low skilled. There has been a sort of paradigm shift that goes beyond active labor...

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Labor Market Effects of Unemployment Insurance Design

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate. In this paper, we review the recent theoretical and empirical evidence on the labor market effects of UI design. We also discuss policy issues related to UI design, including...

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Monitoring Job Search Effort with Hyperbolic Time Preferences and Non-Compliance: A Welfare Analysis

Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna; Van der Linden, Bruno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

show that, if the search requirements are well chosen, a perfect monitoring scheme can in principle increase the job … ignores their misperception problem. In sum, introducing a perfect monitoring scheme can be a Pareto improvement. However, if … job search requirements. Imperfections in the measurement of job-search effort further reduce the chances that monitoring …

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The Effect of Extended Unemployment Benefit on the Job Finding Hazards: A Quasi-Experiment in Japan

Machikita, Tomohiro; Kohara, Miki; Sasaki, Masaru - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper studies how changes in extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefit affect the duration of unemployment. We investigate this question by exploiting not only strict age thresholds but also the pre-displacement tenure and the reason for separation from the previous job in the Japanese...

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