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Measuring Unemployment and Structural Unemployment [PDF]
Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, 2000 This paper surveys recent research on how to measure labour market activities such as unemployment and labour force participation. The conventional approach to distinguishing between unemployment and non-participation is to use a priori reasoning and ...
W Craig Riddell
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Cyclical Unemployment, Structural Unemployment [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 Whenever unemployment stays high for an extended period, it is common to see analyses, statements, and rebuttals about the extent to which the high unemployment is structural, not cyclical. This essay views the Beveridge curve pattern of unemployment and vacancy rates and the related matching function as proxies for the functioning of the labor market ...
Peter A. Diamond +2 more
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Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment [PDF]
Modern Economy, 2010 This paper seeks to provide a simpler explanation of the Match Quality Hypothesis (MQH). For the less mathematically inclined, it avoids formal analysis and yet derives the relevant implications, i.e., if unemployed workers currently collecting unemployment benefits are given more benefits, both the average period of unemployment duration increases as ...
David R. Kamerschen, Willaim Beranek
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Equilibrium unemployment and the duration of unemployment benefits [PDF]
Journal of Population Economics, 2010 This paper uses microdata to evaluate the impact on the steady-state unemployment rate of an increase in maximum benefit duration. We evaluate a policy change in Austria that extended maximum benefit duration and use this policy change to estimate the causal impact of benefit duration on labor market flows.
Lalive, Rafael +2 more
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Unemployment benefits and unemployment [PDF]
IZA World of Labor, 2014 All developed economies have unemployment benefit programs to protect workers against major income losses during spells of unemployment. By enabling unemployed workers to meet basic consumption needs, the programs protect workers from having to sell their assets or accept jobs below their qualifications.
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American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2015 The labor market by itself can create cyclical outcomes, even in the absence of exogenous shocks. We propose a theory in which the search behavior of the employed has profound aggregate implications for the unemployed. There is a strategic complementarity between active on-the-job search and vacancy posting by firms, which leads to multiple equilibria:
Jan Eeckhout, Ilse Lindenlaub
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Your job or your life? The uncertain relationship of unemployment and mortality [PDF]
, 2007 Contrary to the epidemiological literature, some studies find that increases in unemployment decrease mortality. Using US state level data on unemployment, mortality and other covariates for 1974 to 2003, this paper revisits this issue by, first ...
Bender, Keith A., Theodossiou, Ioannis
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Unemployment Insurance And Unemployment Spells [PDF]
Econometrica, 1988 This paper tests the effects of the level and length of unemployment insurance benefits on unemployment durations. The paper particularly studies individual behavior during the weeks just prior to when benefits lapse. Higher unemployment insurance benefits are found to have a strong negative effect on the probability of leaving unemployment.
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Inequalities in US Life Expectancy by Area Unemployment Level, 1990–2010
Scientifica, 2016 This study examined the association between unemployment and life expectancy in the United States during 1990–2010. Census-based unemployment rates were linked to US county-level mortality data.
Gopal K. Singh, Mohammad Siahpush
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