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This paper investigates the impact of the unemployment insurance (UI) entrance requirement on employment duration in … duration of employment spells between 1996 and 1998. …
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Previous research suggests that there are substantial interactions between the unemployment insurance (UI) and the … benefits. This paper examines whether these interactions affect the transition rate from unemployment to employment. To study …
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This paper looks at welfare reforms in Italy and their effects on labour supply. I focus on social security reforms, which have taken place in the 1990s and on labour market reforms. Old age social security expenditure in Italy is high (14% of GDP) and the system has been very generous on early...
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This paper extends the nonparametric method to estimate labor supply developed by Blomquist and Newey (2002) to handle cases in which there are individuals who do not work. The method is then applied to married women in Sweden from 1973 to 1999. For 1999, I find an aggregate uncompensated wage...
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We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the … effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit … find fairly robust evidence suggesting that the actual generosity of UI does matter for regional unemployment. Increases in …
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Existing unemployment insurance systems in many OECD countries involve a ceiling on insurable earnings. The result is …
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This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A...
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among men and women. The two reforms in conjunction are estimated to have increased the expected duration of unemployment … among men but to have decreased the duration of unemployment among women. The overall effect on the duration of unemployment …In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was …
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among men and women. The two reforms in conjunction are estimated to have increased the expected duration of unemployment … among men but to have decreased the duration of unemployment among women. The overall effect on the duration of unemployment …In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321566
the design of optimal unemployment insurance in an economy with unemployment as well as part-time unemployment. Part …-time unemployment provides income insurance and serves as a stepping stone to full-time jobs. Unemployment benefits for part …-timers increase the outflow from unemployment to part-time work but reduce the outflow from part-time work to fulltime employment. We …
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