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Social Science Research Network, 2023 We empirically analyze the heterogeneous welfare effects of unemployment insurance and social assistance. We estimate a structural life cycle model of singles’ and married couples’ labor supply and savings decisions.
P. Haan, Victoria L. Prowse
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The Impact of Unemployment Benefit Extensions on Employment: The 2014 Employment Miracle?
American Economic Journal: MacroeconomicsWe measure the aggregate effect of unemployment benefit duration on employment and the labor force. We exploit the variation induced by Congress' failure in December 2013 to reauthorize the unprecedented benefit extensions introduced during the Great ...
Marcus Hagedorn, I. Manovskii, K. Mitman
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The Growth of Disability Insurance in Belgium: Determinants and Policy Implications
Social Science Research Network, 2023 IZA DP No. 16376 AUGUST 2023 The Growth of Disability Insurance in Belgium: Determinants and Policy Implications* Between 2005 and 2020, Belgium experienced a significant rise in the recipiency rate of long-term disability insurance (DI), rising from 3.5%
Octave De Brouwer, Ilan Tojerow
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Skill Mismatch and the Costs of Job Displacement
Social Science Research NetworkWe study whether earning losses after job displacement can be attributed to the skill mismatch that arises when workers' human capital is underutilized at the new job.
Ljubica Nedelkoska +2 more
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Unemployment Insurance with Response Heterogeneity
Social Science Research Network, 2023 IZA DP No. 16509 OCTOBER 2023 Unemployment Insurance with Response Heterogeneity* The generosity of social insurance coverage often increases with the beneficiary’s age and their contribution time to social security, but existing policies vary ...
Conny Wunsch, Véra Zabrodina
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Empirical Evaluation of Broader Job Search Requirements for Unemployed Workers
Social Science Research Network, 2022 IZA DP No. 15698 NOVEMBER 2022 Empirical Evaluation of Broader Job Search Requirements for Unemployed Workers* This paper analyses data from a large-scale field experiment where unemployed workers were randomly assigned to an additional caseworker ...
B. Klaauw, Heike Vethaak
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The Gender Application Gap: Do Men and Women Apply for the Same Jobs?
Social Science Research NetworkMen and women tend to hold different jobs. Are these differences present already in the types of jobs men and women apply for? Using administrative data on job applications made by the universe of Danish unemployment insurance recipients, we provide ...
Jonas Fluchtmann +3 more
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Job Seekers’ Perceptions and Employment Prospects: Heterogeneity, Duration Dependence, and Bias
The American Economic Review, 2018 This paper uses job seekers’ elicited beliefs about job finding to disentangle the sources of the decline in job-finding rates by duration of unemployment.
Andreas I. Mueller +2 more
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Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment
Social Science Research Network, 2022 IZA DP No. 15439 JULY 2022 Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the ...
Bart Cockx +2 more
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Would Broadening the UI Tax Base Help Low-Income Workers?
Social Science Research Network, 2022 IZA DP No. 15020 JANUARY 2022 Would Broadening the UI Tax Base Help Low-Income Workers? The tax base for state unemployment insurance (UI) programs varies significantly in the U.S., from a low of $7,000 annually in California to a high of $52,700 in ...
M. Duggan, A. Guo, Andrew C. Johnston
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