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Who is bowling alone? : quantile treatment effects of unemployment on social participation

Kunze, Lars; Suppa, Nicolai - 2020

This article examines heterogeneity in the effect of unemployment on social participation. Whereas existing studies on …) based on entropy balancing and focus on unemployment due to plant closures. Using German panel data, we show that the effect … of unemployment varies across the distribution of public social activities. It is large and negative for individuals in …

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Fertility and economic instability : the role of unemployment and job displacement

Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2014

In this paper we study the separate effects of unemployment and job displace- ment on fertility in a sample of white … collar women in Austria. Using an instru- mental variables approach we show that unemployment incidence as such has no … so irrespective of the incidence or the duration of the associated unemployment spell. …

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Layoff costs and learning about employer financial distress

Kostøl, Andreas R.; Merkle, Matthew C.; Grindaker, … - 2024

While many employees risk losing their job and having their career disrupted due to employers' financial distress, it is widely recognized that many leave their employer in anticipation of layoff. In this paper, we assess how employee costs of financial distress depend on employees learning and...

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Does the color of the collar matter? : firm specific human capital and post-displacement outcomes

Schwerdt, Guido; Ichino, Andrea; Ruf, Oliver; … - 2008

We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger for white collar workes. In the long run, there are only weak effects for blue collar workers but...

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The Effects of Unemployment Insurance and Recall Expectations on the Timing of Job Search Among Workers Who Receive Advance Notice of Layoff

Burgess, Paul L.; Low, Stuart A. - 2001

This paper explores how advance notice of layoffs, recall (rehiring) expectations, and unemployment insurance (UI …) benefits affected on-the-job search among a random sample of Arizona UI recipients in 1975-76. The analysis indicates that pre-unemployment … employees advance notice when layoffs are imminent, and re-employment bonuses for workers with zero or short unemployment spells …

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Heterogeneous Layoff Effects of the Us Short-Time Compensation Program

Tracey, Marlon R. - 2018

The Short-Time Compensation (STC) program enables US firms to reduce work hours via pro-rated Unemployment Insurance …

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On existence of private unemployment insurance with advance information on future job losses

Denderski, Piotr - 2021

We study the existence of a profitable unemployment insurance market in a dynamic economy with adverse selection … job losses matters. In contrast to conventional wisdom, we find that private unemployment insurance in the US can be … profitable for a relatively short exclusion length of one year. To stimulate the emergence of a private unemployment insurance …

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Understanding severance pay

Parsons, Donald O. - 2013

Severance pay, a fixed-sum payment to workers at job separation, has been the focus of intense policy concern for the last several decades, but much of this concern is unearned. The design of the ideal separation package is outlined and severance pay emerges as a natural component of job...

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The spike at benefit exhaustion in the Finnish labor market

Kyyrä, Tomi; Pesola, Hanna; Verho, Jouko - 2017

Many studies have found that the exit rate from unemployment increases in the vicinity of the exhaustion day of … unemployment insurance benefits. The extent to which this "spike" is driven by job search behavior is important for assessing the … distortionary effect of unemployment insurance. Card, Chetty and Weber (American Economic Review 2007; 97: 113-118) find a large …

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Unemployment insurance and the labor market

Zweimüller, Josef - 2018

The existing literature assumes that unemployment insurance (UI) affects the labor market through the job finding rate …

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