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This paper investigates the macroeconomic effects of short term training measures on the matching processes in West Germany. The empirical analysis is based on regional data for local employment office districts for the period from January 2003 to December 2004. The empirical model relies on a...
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This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program … the form of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) - so as to mitigate the moral hazard problem of traditional … unemployment insurance programs. Our study is the first one to empirically investigate whether UISAs improve work incentives. We …
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. We show that ERTEs stabilize unemployment rates by allowing workers to remain with their employers in highly affected …
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We analyze the effect of automation and offshorability on unemployment duration and post-unemployment outcomes such as … wages and employment stability. Our rich administrative data allow us to evaluate the importance of providing unemployment …
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the Great Recession. Because the cut applied only to new benefit claims, claimants whose unemployment start dates differed …-in-Difference analyses. While we find no impact on unemployment duration for those aged 20–21, the benefit cut significantly reduced duration …
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unemployment, there is little comprehensive evidence about the effects of activation during recessions. Here we evaluate a large … activation programme introduced in Portugal in 2012, a time of very high unemployment. This programme required specific … unemployment benefit recipients to meet jobcentre caseworkers and then participate in active labour market policies. Our analysis …
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efficient to intervene earlier in order to prevent long-term unemployment rather than to cure it, the climate of austerity in … of the unemployment spell. It comprises of a collective information session followed by a short one-on-one interview. In … in the first four months after the start of the unemployment spell, and the early intervention seems especially …
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market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms …
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We revisit the hypothesis that labor market fluctuations are driven by shocks to the discount rate. Using a model in which the UE and the EU rates are endogenous, we show that an increase in the discount rate leads to a decline in both the UE and the EU rates. In the data, though, the UE and EU...
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This study re-estimates the employment effects of training programs for the unemployed using exogenous variation in participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In addition to estimating complier effects with...
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