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entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … the disincentive effect of UI on unemployment duration, UI benefit generosity may also increase job match quality by … benefit duration on unemployment duration and post-unemployment outcomes. We find a spike in the re-employment hazard for the …
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sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We …Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics.We find that a vacancy referral increases the …
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Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their search effort on the job offer arrival rate. In this paper, we present an alternative model which assumes instead that each individual has a subjective belief about the impact of his...
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This paper analyses data from a large-scale field experiment where unemployed workers were randomly assigned to an additional caseworker meeting with the purpose to impose a broader job search strategy. We find that the meeting significantly increases job finding and is cost effective. However,...
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duration dependence in unemployment benefits in a random on the job search model featuring two-sided heterogeneity. General …
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This paper studies how changes in extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefit affect the duration of unemployment. We … not lead to a decrease in the jobless hazard; the duration of unemployment is not prolonged among jobseekers who have … longer maximum benefit duration. This result is robust to shorter and longer tenure before entering unemployment. The non …
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Recent evidence from large-scale field experiments has shown that employers use job candidates' unemployment duration … duration of unemployment on hiring intentions is mediated by the four theories. The lower hiring chances of the long …. Recent evidence from large-scale field experiments has shown that employers use job candidates' unemployment duration as a …
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the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh … incentives due to higher net earnings. Additional earnings during unemployment might lead to higher reservation wages prolonging …
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Despite the increased frequency of job loss for older workers in Europe, little is known on its effect on the work-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the European Community Household Panel for Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., a multivariate competing-risks hazard model is...
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market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms …, in speeding up the matching process between unemployed and vacant jobs. The analysis is conceptually rooted in the flow …-based view underlying the reforms, estimating the structural features of the matching process. The results indicate that the …
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