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Hartz and minds: happiness effects of reforming an employment agency
Deter, Max - 2020
Since the labor market reforms around 2005, known as the Hartz reforms, Germany has experienced declining unemployment … unemployment rate. Also unemployed persons who exogenously lost their jobs are affected by the reforms. In line with the structure …
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Individual and market-level effects of UI policies : evidence from Missouri
Karahan, Fatih; Mitman, Kurt; Moore, Brendan - 2019
(market-level effect) to changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. To implement this approach, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137594
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Individual and market-level effects of UI policies : evidence from Missouri
Karahan, Fatih; Mitman, Kurt; Moore, Brendan - 2019
(market-level effect) to changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. To implement this approach, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139297
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Active labor market policies
Crépon, Bruno; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2016
Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have been published. In this review, we critically assess policy effectiveness. We emphasize insights from recent randomized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580552
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The macroeconomics of labor and credit market imperfections
Wasmer, Etienne; Weil, Philippe - 2000
Labor market frictions are not the only possible factor responsible for high unemployment. Credit market imperfections … European and US unemployment differ so much when labor markets have become more similar at the margin in Europe and the US. To …
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Potential unemployment insurance duration and labor supply : the individual and market-level response to a benefit cut
Johnston, Andrew; Mas, Alexandre - 2020
We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … estimates to simulate the unemployment rate assuming no market-level externalities. The simulated response, which implies almost … a one percentage point decline in the unemployment rate, closely approximates the estimated change in the unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233084
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Does the internet increase the job finding rate? : evidence from a period of internet expansion
Denzer, Manuel; Schank, Thorsten; Upward, Richard - 2018
We examine the impact of household access to the internet on job finding rates in Germany during a period (2006-2009) in which internet access increased rapidly, and job-seekers increased their use of the internet as a search tool. During this period, household access to the internet was almost...
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Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers: a randomized controlled field experiment in Germany
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Stephan, Gesine - 2021
In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415082
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The welfare effects of mandatory reemployment programs: combining a structural model and experimental data
Maibom Pedersen, Jonas - 2021
This paper estimates a structural model of job search which accounts for utility costs and benefits linked to mandatory reemployment programs. The estimation uses data from a randomized experiment which generates exogenous variation in the threat of program participation. I use the compensating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703033
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Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers: a randomized controlled field experiment in Germany
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Stephan, Gesine - 2021
Integration Agreement (IA) are contracts between the employment agency and the unemployed, nudging the latter to comply with rules on search behavior. We designed and implemented an RCT involving thousands of newly unemployed workers, randomizing at the individual level both the timing of the IA...
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