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Revisiting the Effects of Unemployment Insurance Extensions on Unemployment: A Measurement‑Error‑Corrected Regression Discontinuity Approach

open access: yesAmerican Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2020
This study documents two potential biases in recent analyses of UI benefit extensions using boundary-based identification: bias from using county-level aggregates and bias from across-border policy spillovers. To examine the first bias, the analysis uses
S. Dieterle   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Nonparametric Evidence on the Effects of Financial Incentives on Retirement Decisions

open access: yesSocial Science Research Network, 2014
This paper presents new evidence on the effects of retirement benefits on labor force participation decisions. The analysis is based on a mandated rule for employer-provided retirement benefits in Austria that creates discontinuities in the incentives ...
Dayanand Manoli, A. Weber
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Job loss and the mental health of spouses and adolescent children

open access: yes, 2017
Panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey are used to examine the impact of involuntary job loss on the mental health of spouses and adolescent children.
Melisa Bubonya, D. Cobb-Clark, M. Wooden
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Letter and Encouragement: Does Information Increase Post-Secondary Enrollment of Ui Recipients?

open access: yesAmerican Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017
For individuals who experience job loss, enrollment in postsecondary programs may provide an opportunity to improve future employment outcomes. However, decisions to enroll may be hampered by insufficient information about the benefits and costs and the ...

semanticscholar   +1 more source

Job Displacement Insurance and (the Lack of) Consumption-Smoothing

open access: yesThe American Economic Review, 2019
We study the spending profile of workers who experience both a positive transitory income shock (lump-sum severance pay) and a negative permanent income shock (layoff). Using de-identified expenditure and employment data from Brazil, we show that workers
F. Gérard, Joana Naritomi
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Unemployment Insurance Generosity and Aggregate Employment

open access: yesAmerican Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017
This paper examines the impact of unemployment insurance (UI) on aggregate employment by exploiting cross-state variation in the maximum benefit duration during the Great Recession.
Christopher Boone   +3 more
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Labor Supply and the Value of Non-Work Time: Experimental Estimates from the Field

open access: yesAmerican Economic Review: Insights, 2019
We estimate the marginal value of non-work time (MVT) using a field experiment. We offered job applicants randomized wage-hour bundles. Choices over these bundles yield estimates of the MVT as a function of hours, tracing out a labor supply relationship.
Alexandre Mas, Amanda Pallais
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Towards shared unemployment insurance in the euro area

open access: yes, 2016
The divergences developed within the euro area represent the main threat to the existence of the single currency and to the stability of the EU as a whole. Without proper automatic stabilisers, a monetary union can only deliver suboptimal results and may
L. Andor
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Labor Market Responses to Unemployment Insurance: The Role of Heterogeneity

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2023
We document considerable scope of heterogeneity within the unemployed, especially when they are divided along eligibility for and receipt of unemployment insurance (UI).
S. Birinci, K. See
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