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Job Displacement and Earnings Losses: The Role of Joblessness

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
A large literature finds that workers displaced in mass layoffs experience persistent earnings losses. We find that the earnings penalty from job displacement is mediated by the length of the jobless spell after displacement.
Bruce K. Fallick   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Employers and Unemployment Insurance Take-Up

The American Economic Review
We quantify the employer's role in unemployment insurance (UI) take-up. Employer effects on claiming and appeals are substantial, and those effects are negatively correlated, consistent with appeals deterring claims.
Marta Lachowska   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Severance Pay in an Optimal Contract

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
We study the incentive role of severance compensation. In a canonical principal-agent model, we introduce exogenous job destruction risk and show that compensation following job destruction can reduce overall incentive costs.
Borys Grochulski   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Refugee Benefit Cuts

Social Science Research Network
This paper analyzes the effects of Denmark’s Start Aid welfare reform that targets refugees. Implemented in 2002, it enables us to study not only the reform’s immediate effects but also its longer-term consequences and its repeal a decade later.
C. Dustmann   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Skill Depreciation during Unemployment: Evidence from Panel Data

Social Science Research Network, 2023
We examine the depreciation of skills among unemployed German workers using a panel of skill measures linked to administrative data. Both the reemployment hazard and reemployment earnings steadily decline with unemployment duration.
Jon S. Cohen   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Changing Situation of Employment, Unemployment and Migration in India

The Indian Economic Journal
This article examines the changing nature, pattern and extent of employment, unemployment and migration in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The labour force participation rate (LFPR) and employment have gradually improved, which had considerably ...
Reimeingam Marchang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Eliciting Time Preferences When Income and Consumption Vary: Theory, Validation, and Application to Job Search

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
We propose a simple method for eliciting individual time preferences without estimating utility functions even in settings where background consumption changes over time.
Michèle Belot   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Time to Say Goodbye: The Macroeconomic Implications of Termination Notice

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
Insuring households against unemployment risk is a cornerstone of modern economic policy. Many countries provide unemployment insurance partly by employment protection mandates, most commonly using termination notice mandates.
Tomer Ifergane
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Enhancing Economic Resilience: Evaluating South Africa's Industrial Policy for Inclusive Growth and Transformation

Global Conference on Business and Social Sciences Proceeding
South Africa has pursued the manufacturing-led strategy as a tool to enhance job creation and economic transformation with limited success. Unemployment, inequality, and low growth have been persistent outcomes despite efforts to re-orient the economy ...
L. Mapamba, Noleen N. Pisa
semanticscholar   +1 more source

AI Diffusion and the Possibility of Full Unemployment: An Urgent but Neglected Issue

The Review of Radical Political Economics
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often viewed as a potential catalyst for mass unemployment. However, there has been a notable lack of contributions published in economics journals on this topic, with virtually none exploring the possibility of full ...
Fabio D’Orlando
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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