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Administrative data on German short-time work: essentials and potentials
Journal for Labour Market ResearchThis article describes newly available data on the German short-time work scheme Kurzarbeit. In the course of administering short-time work, the Federal Employment Agency has begun to collect data on its usage.
Christian Kagerl
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The Fiscal Costs of Unemployment Insurance
EconomíaThis paper studies the fiscal costs of unemployment insurance (UI). It surveys alternative methods used in the literature to estimate the impact of UI on government budgets and compares them within a unified framework that incorporates behavioral ...
Joaquín Herrera +2 more
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U.S. Unemployment insurance through the Covid-19 crisis
Journal of Government and Economics, 2023 The Unemployment Insurance (UI) system in the United States has played a decisive lifeline role in effectively mitigating the economic and social impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, which prompted the largest expansion of UI programs in history, one that is
Francesco Spadafora
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The Costs of Job Displacement over the Business Cycle and Its Sources: Evidence from Germany
Social Science Research Network, 2022 We document the sources behind the costs of job loss over the business cycle using administrative data from Germany. Losses in annual earnings after displacement are large, persistent, and highly cyclical, nearly doubling in size during downturns.
Johannes F. Schmieder +2 more
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Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Discrete Running Variable [PDF]
The American Economic Review, 2016 We consider inference in regression discontinuity designs when the running variable only takes a moderate number of distinct values. In particular, we study the common practice of using confidence intervals (CIs) based on standard errors that are ...
M. Kolesár, Christoph Rothe
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How Do Households Respond to Job Loss? Lessons from Multiple High-Frequency Data Sets
Social Science Research Network, 2023 How much and through which channels do households self-insure against job loss? Combining data from a large bank and from government sources, we quantify a broad range of responses to job loss in a unified empirical framework.
A. Andersen +5 more
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Consumer Spending during Unemployment: Positive and Normative Implications
The American Economic Review, 2019 Using de-identified bank account data, we show that spending drops sharply at the large and predictable decrease in income arising from the exhaustion of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits.
P. Ganong, P. Noel
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The American Economic Review, 2022 We show that the largest increase in unemployment benefits in US history had large spending impacts and small job-finding impacts. This finding has three implications.
P. Ganong +4 more
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Social Science Research Network, 2023 IZA DP No. 16426 SEPTEMBER 2023 Predicting Re-Employment: Machine Learning versus Assessments by Unemployed Workers and by Their Caseworkers* Predictions of whether newly unemployed individuals will become long-term unemployed are important for the ...
Gerard J. van den Berg +4 more
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