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When Institutions Interact : How the Effects of Unemployment Insurance are Shaped by Retirement Policies
Gudgeon, Matthew; Guzman, Pablo; Schmieder, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in a first-order way on the structure of retirement policies. Using German data, we first present reduced-form evidence of these interactions, documenting large bunching in UI...
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The Search for Good Jobs : Evidence from a Six-year Field Experiment in Uganda
Bandiera, Oriana; Bassi, Vittorio; Burgess, Robin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
: vocational training, vocational training combined with matching youth to firms, and matching only. Training is offered in sectors … with high quality firms. The matching intervention assigns workers for interviews with such firms. At baseline, unskilled … firms. However, youth additionally offered matching become discouraged because call back rates from firm owners are far …
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u* = √uv
Michaillat, Pascal; Saez, Emmanuel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Most governments are mandated to maintain their economies at full employment. We propose that the best marker of full employment is the efficient unemployment rate, u*. We define u* as the unemployment rate that minimizes the nonproductive use of labor--both jobseeking and recruiting. The...
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New evidence on long-term effects of start-up subsidies : matching estimates and their robustness
Caliendo, Marco; Tübbicke, Stefan - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 59 (2020) 4, pp. 1605-1631
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Wellbeing, Expectations and Unemployment in Europe
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We find expectations are more sensitive to economic growth than traditional wellbeing metrics. We examine Eurobarometer micro data from 1973-2023 on movements in life satisfaction along with data from 1995-2022 on five expectations variables on and individual's life and their financial and job...
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The Internet, Search Frictions and Aggregate Unemployment
Bhuller, Manudeep; Ferraro, Domenico; Kostøl, Andreas … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How has the internet affected search and hiring, and what are the implications for aggregate unemployment? Answering these questions empirically has proven difficult due to selection in internet use and difficulty in measuring the search activities of both sides of the labor market. This paper...
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Employment effects of the provision of specific professional skills and techniques in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 32 (2007) 2/3, pp. 529-573
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Skill Depreciation during Unemployment : Evidence from Panel Data
Cohen, Jonathan P.; Johnston, Andrew; Lindner, Attila - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use a panel of survey responses linked to administrative data in Germany to measure the depreciation of skills while … cognitive and noncognitive skills while workers remain unemployed. We find the same pattern in a panel of American workers. The …
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Bonus Question : Does Flexible Incentive Pay Dampen Unemployment Dynamics?
Gaur, Meghana; Grigsby, John R.; Hazell, Jonathon; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We introduce dynamic incentive contracts into a model of unemployment dynamics and present three results. First, wage cyclicality from incentives does not dampen unemployment dynamics: the response of unemployment to shocks is first-order equivalent in an economy with flexible incentive pay and...
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Updating about Yourself by Learning about the Market : The Dynamics of Beliefs and Expectations in Job Search
He, Qiwei; Kircher, Philipp - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This study documents how job seekers update perceived job-finding prospects by unemployment duration and by learning about aggregate unemployment. We find that job seekers perceive an 18% decline in their job-finding probability for each additional month of unemployment, but perceive a higher...
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