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When Institutions Interact : How the Effects of Unemployment Insurance are Shaped by Retirement Policies

Gudgeon, Matthew; Guzman, Pablo; Schmieder, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in a first-order way on the structure of retirement policies. Using German data, we first present reduced-form evidence of these interactions, documenting large bunching in UI...

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The Search for Good Jobs : Evidence from a Six-year Field Experiment in Uganda

Bandiera, Oriana; Bassi, Vittorio; Burgess, Robin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

: vocational training, vocational training combined with matching youth to firms, and matching only. Training is offered in sectors … with high quality firms. The matching intervention assigns workers for interviews with such firms. At baseline, unskilled … firms. However, youth additionally offered matching become discouraged because call back rates from firm owners are far …

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u* = √uv

Michaillat, Pascal; Saez, Emmanuel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Most governments are mandated to maintain their economies at full employment. We propose that the best marker of full employment is the efficient unemployment rate, u*. We define u* as the unemployment rate that minimizes the nonproductive use of labor--both jobseeking and recruiting. The...

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The impact of declining youth employment stability on future wages

Umkehrer, Matthias - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 56 (2019) 2, pp. 619-650

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New evidence on long-term effects of start-up subsidies : matching estimates and their robustness

Caliendo, Marco; Tübbicke, Stefan - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 59 (2020) 4, pp. 1605-1631

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Wellbeing, Expectations and Unemployment in Europe

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We find expectations are more sensitive to economic growth than traditional wellbeing metrics. We examine Eurobarometer micro data from 1973-2023 on movements in life satisfaction along with data from 1995-2022 on five expectations variables on and individual's life and their financial and job...

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The Internet, Search Frictions and Aggregate Unemployment

Bhuller, Manudeep; Ferraro, Domenico; Kostøl, Andreas … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

How has the internet affected search and hiring, and what are the implications for aggregate unemployment? Answering these questions empirically has proven difficult due to selection in internet use and difficulty in measuring the search activities of both sides of the labor market. This paper...

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Old Europe ages : Reforms and Reform Backlashes

Boersch-Supan, Axel H. - 2010

The extent of the demographic changes in Europe is dramatic and will deeply affect future labor, financial and goods markets. The expected strain on public budgets and especially social security has already received prominent attention, but aging poses many other economic challenges that...

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What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?

Burda, Michael C. - 2011

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment loss. Employers' reticence to hire in the preceding expansion, associated in part with a lack of confidence it would last, contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to 40...

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Employment effects of the provision of specific professional skills and techniques in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 32 (2007) 2/3, pp. 529-573

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