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unemployment insurance (UI) work test on long-term employment outcomes. Adding administrative wage records to the Washington …
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Unemployment insurance is usually found to show negative effects in the transition from unemployment to a new job …. However, the extent to which workers' careers might improve or deteriorate as a result of the unemployment insurance system is …
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In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared to his white counterpart. Lang and Lehmann (2012) argue that these mean differences mask substantial heterogeneity along the distribution of workers' skill. In particular, they...
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This paper provides a unified account of the trends in unemployment and labor force participation pertaining to the … the United States, (ii) the similar but more pronounced decline in Europe alongside rising unemployment rates and (iii …) differences across European countries in the role played respectively by unemployment and labor force participation. The model …
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that households with a participating wife are better able to deal with unemployment of the husband. A supplementary … sensitive to his own unemployment income if the wife is nonparticipating. This implies that unemployment benefits have a …
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rates of unemployment. Labor market regulations, unemployment benefits, and high levels of public consumption in many …
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force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are … ; labor market reforms ; participation ; unemployment ; disability …
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(carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job … seekers. The results show that "carrots" and "sticks" treatments prolong unemployment, but carrots increase earnings whereas …
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) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations, employment, and postunemployment … intensive carrots and sticks regimes each reduce unemployment durations, but with carrots regimes this raises earnings whereas …
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historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …
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