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We investigate the effect of counseling and monitoring on the individual transition rate to employment. We theoretically analyze these policies in a job search model with two search channels and endogenous search effort. In the empirical analysis we use unique administrative and survey data...
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In July 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the Unemployment Insurance scheme. Workers claiming unemployment benefits for more than 13 months are notified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later. In one region the target group is counseled shortly...
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Can media coverage of a terrorist organization encourage their execution of further attacks? This paper analyzes the …
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constituents during times of low media attention to politics. Combining data on campaign finance donations made by individuals and …
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This paper systematically analyzes media attention devoted to terrorist attacks worldwide between 1998 and 2012 …. Several aspects are related to predicting media attention. First, suicide missions receive significantly more coverage, which … heightened media attention. Second, less attention is devoted to attacks in countries located further away from the US. Third …
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This paper investigates the effect of media coverage on immigration attitudes. It combines data on immigration coverage …
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We study the role of media reporting of alleged adverse effects of influenza vaccination on adults' (aged 50 or more … campaign, unaffected by media cases, we show that media reporting decreases flu vaccination by about 2.5% (78 fewer …
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What motivates kidnapping decisions by rebel groups? This paper studies news coverage of a proposed prisoner exchange program (the Acuerdo Humanitario; AH) in connection with FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) kidnappings in the early 2000s. We propose that AH News nourished the...
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We address the question of whether media influences occupational choices. To theoretically examine media effects, we …. We show that sufficiently intensive positive media articles and reports about entrepreneurship increase the probability … to identify causal media effects using US micro data and a country-level macro panel with two different media variables …
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