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lose employment faster, especially once eligible for new unemployment benefits. Job seekers assigned to JSA have similar …
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reducing the entitlement period increases the job finding rate, but decreases the job quality. Unemployed workers accept more … did not affect total post-unemployment earnings indicating that the positive effects on job finding and job turnover …
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"In this paper, we review the literature on the "spike" in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion, and … unemployment spells are measured has a large effect on the magnitude of the spike at exhaustion, both in existing studies and in … defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …
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Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases … the newly unemployed. This finding carries a strong warning for policy assessment: unless controlled for cyclical … fluctuations in the composition of the newly unemployed an evaluation of a policy designed to get the longterm unemployed into work …
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Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States economy in … Recession's official end in the summer of 2009, but because it was slow and the depth of the recession so deep, it took years to … reduce slack in labor markets. But because the slow-and-steady recovery lasted so long, many pre-recession peaks were …
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Governments around the developing world face pressure to intervene actively to help jobseekers find employment. Two of the most common policies used are job training, based on the idea that many of those seeking jobs lack the skills employers want, and job search assistance, based on the...
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This paper examines the impact of an experiment in North Macedonia in which vulnerable unemployed individuals applying …
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This paper estimates the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Job search theory implies that if … Unemployment Insurance (UI) extensions do not affect wages conditional on the month of unemployment exit, then reservation wages do … not bind on average. Then, UI extensions affect mean wages only through unemployment durations and are valid instrumental …
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periods of unemployment in the past is particularly important: long-term unemployed people have difficulties in re …In this paper we investigate whether unemployment traps exist and are significant in the transition from unemployment …-integrating the labour market and they obtain low salaries when they succeed in finding employment. Long unemployment spells are …
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In response to the Great Recession and sustained labor market downturn, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI … extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the …
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