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Inconsistent Policy Evaluation : A Case Study for a Large Workfare Program

Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2015

Evaluations of workfare programs in poor rural economies have typically ignored two features that policy makers stress … methods to incorporate both features, and shows that doing so can switch the policy ranking in favor of welfare over workfare … suggested by past methods, despite a more “poor-poor” incidence. A basic-income guarantee would dominate net workfare earnings …

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The Causal Effect of Unemployment Duration on Wages : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Extensions

Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2013

This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI) extensions can be used as instrumental variables (IV)...

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Unemployment in the Great Recession : A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States

Hoffmann, Florian - 2014

This paper investigates the potential reasons for the surprisingly different labor market performance of the United States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates did not change substantially in Germany, increased and...

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The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion : Leaving the Unemployment System or Starting a New Job?

Card, David - 2010

In this paper, we review the literature on the quot;spikequot; in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion, and present new evidence based on administrative data for a large sample of job losers in Austria. We find that the way unemployment spells are measured has a large effect on the...

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The Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment

Elsby, Michael - 2010

One of the strongest trends in recent macroeconomic modeling of labor market fluctuations is to treat unemployment inflows as acyclical. This trend stems in large part from an influential paper by Shimer on quot;Reassessing the Ins and Outs of Unemployment,quot; i.e., the extent to which...

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Long-Term Unemployment and the Great Recession : The Role of Composition, Duration Dependence, and Non-Participation

Kroft, Kory - 2014

We explore the extent to which composition, duration dependence, and labor force non-participation can account for the sharp increase in the incidence of long-term unemployment (LTU) during the Great Recession. We first show that compositional shifts in demographics, occupation, industry,...

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Job Seekers' Perceptions and Employment Prospects : Heterogeneity, Duration Dependence and Bias

Mueller, Andreas I. - 2018

This paper analyses job seekers' perceptions and their relationship to unemployment outcomes to study heterogeneity and duration dependence in both perceived and actual job finding. Using longitudinal data from two comprehensive surveys, we document that elicited beliefs are (1) strongly...

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The Consequences of Long-Term Unemployment : Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data

Abraham, Katharine G. - 2016

It is well known that the long-term unemployed fare worse in the labor market than the short-term unemployed, but less clear why this is so. One potential explanation is that the long-term unemployed are “bad apples” who had poorer prospects from the outset of their spells (heterogeneity)....

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Labor Market Dysfunction During the Great Recession

Herkenhoff, Kyle - 2011

This paper documents the abnormally slow recovery in the labor market during the Great Recession, and analyzes how mortgage modification policies contributed to delayed recovery. By making modifications means-tested by reducing mortgage payments based on a borrower's current income, these...

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Job Loss in the Great Recession : Historical Perspective from the Displaced Workers Survey, 1984-2010

Farber, Henry S. - 2011

The Great Recession from December 2007 to June 2009 is associated with a dramatic weakening of the labor market from which the labor market is now only slowly recovering. The unemployment rate remains stubbornly high and durations of unemployment are unprecedentedly long. I use data from the...

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