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abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its … effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a triple difference methodology the hiring subsidy is shown to increase the job … at least a bachelor's degree. However, the hiring subsidy mainly created temporary short-lived employment: eligible …
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This paper shows that health is an important determinant of labor market vulnerability during large economic crises …. Using data on adults during Sweden's unexpected economic crisis in the early 1990s, we show that early and later life health … are important determinants of job loss after the crisis, but not before. Adults who were born with worse health (proxied …
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-insurance from savings. Exploiting variation from unemployment benefits eligibility, we also provide evidence on the mitigating role … of formal unemployment insurance using a Regression Discontinuity design exploiting the cutoff from the unemployment …
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We analyse benefit-entitlement effects and the likely impact of the recent reform of the unemployment compensation … system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre … unemployed who are eligible to means-tested unemployment assistance after the exhaustion of unemployment benefit, but not for …
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appears that the activation program is very effective. The median unemployment duration of the control group is 14 weeks …
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This paper estimates the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Job search theory implies that if … Unemployment Insurance (UI) extensions do not affect wages conditional on the month of unemployment exit, then reservation wages do … not bind on average. Then, UI extensions affect mean wages only through unemployment durations and are valid instrumental …
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involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed unemployment duration in the reservation wage equation. Our analysis … duration coefficient suggests that higher reservation wages negatively influence the probability of exiting unemployment …
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In response to the Great Recession and sustained labor market downturn, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI … extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the …
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In this paper, we review the literature on the quot;spikequot; in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion … unemployment spells are measured has a large effect on the magnitude of the spike at exhaustion, both in existing studies and in … defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …
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Long-term unemployment reached unprecedented levels in Spain in the wake of the Great Recession and it still affects … around 57% of the unemployed. We document the sources that contributed to the rise in long-term unemployment and analyze its … characteristics such as mature age, lack of experience, and entitlement to unemployment benefits are key to understand the cross …
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