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Human Capital Depreciation and Returns to Experience

The American Economic Review, 2022
Human capital can depreciate if skills are unused. But estimating human capital depreciation is challenging, as worker skills are difficult to measure and less productive workers are more likely to spend time in nonemployment.
Michael Dinerstein, Rigissa Megalokonomou, C. Yannelis   +2 more
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Strategic Formal Layoffs: Unemployment Insurance and Informal Labor Markets

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023
Exploiting an unemployment insurance reform in Brazil, we study incentive effects of UI in the presence of informal labor markets. We find that eligibility for UI benefits increases formal layoffs by 11 percent. Most of the additional layoffs are related
Bernardus Van Doornik, David Schoenherr, J. Skrastins   +2 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, Isaac Sorkin, Stephen A. Woodbury   +2 more
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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

Take-up of Social Benefits: Experimental Evidence from France

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
We report on two nationwide experiments with job seekers in France. We first show that a meeting with social services to assess eligibility and help with applications to social benefits increased new benefit take-up by 29 percent.
L. Castell, Marc Gurgand, Clément Imbert, Todor Tochev   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Taxes Today, Benefits Tomorrow

Social Science Research Network
This paper tests whether partially unemployed workers value future preserved benefits when they bunch at the kink of the unemployment insurance benefit-withdrawal schedule.
Thomas Le Barbanchon
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Variations in Covid Strategies: Determinants and Lessons

, 2021
This paper examines the experience of a set of countries that performed relatively well in coping with the COVID-19 crisis. The goal is to garner insights and lessons that can help countries that may experience initial or second-round outbreaks of the ...
S. N. Islam, H. Cheng, K. Helgason, N. Hunt, H. Kawamura, A. Julca   +5 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, Russell Wong, Yuzhe Zhang   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Fiscal Costs of Unemployment Insurance

EconomiA
This 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, Martín González-Rozada, H. Ruffo   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Assessing the Stabilizing Effects of Unemployment Benefit Extensions

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
We study the stabilizing role of benefit extensions. We develop a tractable quantitative model with heterogeneous agents, search frictions, and nominal rigidities.
Alexey Gorn, A. Trigari
semanticscholar   +1 more source