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Job Insecurity, Unemployment Insurance and On-the-Job Search Evidence from Older American Workers

Gutierrez, Italo A. - 2015

In this study I estimate that about 23% to 47% of older American on-the-job seekers search for another job because they feel insecure at their current employment. I also analyze whether unemployment insurance (UI) affects this relationship between job insecurity and on-the-job search. I find...

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Bringing Them In or Pushing Them Out? The Labor Market Effects of Pro-cyclical Unemployment Assistance Changes

Domènech-Arumí, Gerard; Vannutelli, Silvia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

is crucial when designing long-term benefit schedules affecting workers close to retirement …

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Seek and Ye Shall Find : How Search Requirements Affect Job Finding Rates of Older Workers

Hullegie, Patrick - 2013

Unemployment insurance recipients in the Netherlands were for a long time exempted from the requirement to actively search for a job when they reached the age of 57.5. We study how this exemption affected the job finding rates of the recipients involved. We find evidence that the job finding...

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How changes in unemployment benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment

van Ours, Jan C.; Tuit, Sander - 2010

We study how changes in the maximum benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment in the Netherlands. Until August 2003, workers who became unemployed after age 57.5 were entitled to unemployment benefits until the age of 65, after which they would receive old age pensions. This...

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Partial retirement : effects on employment and implications for government budgets

Haan, Peter; Tolan, Songül; Hirschhausen, Christian R. von - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 48, pp. 491-497

could be achieved if people retire from the work force later in life. Partial retirement, the option to work part-time while … drawing a pension before reaching the normal retirement age, could create the necessary conditions for reaching this goal. The … impact of partial retirement on employment will be simulated below. The results show that unrestricted access to partial …

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Job Search Costs and Incentives

Zapechelnyuk, Andriy; Ro'i Zultan - School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary - 2012

The costs of searching for a job vacancy are typically associated with friction that deters or delays employment of potentially productive individuals. We demonstrate that in a labor market with moral hazard where effort is noncontractible, job search costs play a positive role, whose effect may...

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Should Unemployment Insurance Vary with the Unemployment Rate? Theory and Evidence

Kroft, Kory; Notowidigdo, Matthew J. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012

We study how optimal unemployment insurance (UI) benefits vary over the business cycle by estimating how the moral hazard cost and the consumption smoothing benefit of UI vary with the unemployment rate. We find that the moral hazard cost is procyclical, greater when the unemployment rate is...

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Labour Market Matters - April 2014

Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014

Examples of educational mismatch and overqualifcation in the labour market can often be found in the same office building â€“ the clerical worker with a bachelorâ€™s degree reporting to a manager with a high school education â€“ as an example. Some have argued that mismatch in...

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Unemployment accounts

Setty, Ofer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Unemployment Accounts (UA) are mandatory individual saving accounts that can be used by governments as an alternative to the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system. I study a two tier UA-UI system where the unemployed withdraw from their unemployment account until it is exhausted and then receive...

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Subsídio de desemprego: uma revisão da literatura teórica e empírica

Simoes, Nadia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

A vast theoretical and empirical literature has focused on the effects of unemployment insurance benefits on the decisions of the recipients and how these decisions influence their labor market outcomes. Three strands of literature are discussed in this paper: (i) the impact of unemployment...

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