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

Cockx, Bart - 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 Threat of Monitoring Job Search. A Discontinuity Design

Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - CESifo - 2010

job search is verified. The threat of monitoring increases transitions to employment, but of lower quality. In the less …

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Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies : The Role of Job Search Assistance

Wunsch, Conny - 2010

measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative …

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Work Incentives? Ex Post Effects of Unemployment Insurance Sanctions - Evidence from West Germany

Hofmann, Barbara - 2008

Unemployment insurance (UI) sanctions in the form of benefit reductions are intended to set disincentives for UI recipients to stay unemployed. Empirical evidence about the effects of UI sanctions in Germany is sparse. Using administrative data we investigate the effects of sanctions on the...

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The Effect of Extending the Duration of Eligibility in an Italian Labour Market Programme for Dismissed Workers

Rettore, Enrico; Paggiaro, Adriano; Trivellato, Ugo - 2021

Liste di mobilitý (LM) is an Italian labour market programme targeted to dismissed workers. There is a 'passive' component granting monetary benefits to employees dismissed by firms larger than 15 employees, and an 'active' component providing an employment subsidy to any firm hiring workers...

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How Do Extended Benefits Affect Unemployment Duration? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Lalive, Rafael - 2008

This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks. Interestingly, this program is targeted to individuals aged 50 years or older, living in certain eligible regions in Austria. In the evaluation, I use sharp discontinuities in...

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Quick Job Entry or Long-Term Human Capital Devlopment? The Dynamic Effects of Alternative Training Schemes

Osikominu, Aderonke - 2012

This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human capital intensive training programs work. We evaluate and compare their effects on time until job entry, stability of employment, and earnings. Further, we examine the...

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Optimal Unemployment Benefit Policy and the Firm Productivity Distribution

Blumkin, Tomer - 2016

This paper provides a novel justification for a declining time profile of unemployment benefits that does not rely on moral hazard or consumption-smoothing considerations. We consider a simple search environment with homogeneous workers and low- and high-productivity firms. By introducing a...

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Is There Always a Trade-Off between Insurance and Incentives? The Case of Unemployment with Subsistence Constraints

Mesén Vargas, Juliana - 2018

This article analyzes the behavioral effects of unemployment benefits (UB) and it characterizes their optimal level when jobless people, who can carry out a subsistence activity, only survive if they have access to a minimum consumption level. Our model shows that if the level of UB is low...

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Job Search, Unemployment Protection and Informal Work in Advanced Economies

Long, Iain - 2018

This paper investigates the incentives that may induce workers to supplement income from unemployment benefits by engaging in temporary informal work. Using a dynamic model of job-search with moral hazard that incorporates a stylised schedule of benefit payments, we describe how informal sector...

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