The Displacement Effect of Reemployment Bonus Programs

Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment: Implications of the Reemployment Bonus Experiments

We translate the results of the three reemployment bonus experiments that were conducted during the 1980s into (a) impacts of a 10-percentage point increase in the Unemployment Insurance (UI) replacement rate on the expected duration of unemployment; and (b) impacts of adding 1 week to the potential duration of UI benefits on the expected duration of unemployment. Our approach is to use an equi...

Introduction and Background of the Reemployment Bonus Experiments

The Pennsylvania Reemployment Bonus Experiments: How a Survival Model Helps in the Analysis of the Data

Survival models for life-time data and other time-to-event data are widely used in many fields, including medicine, the environmental sciences, engineering etc., but they have still found less recognition in economics, however they are very helpful in the analysis of economic duration data. This paper provides a reanalysis of the Pennsylvania Reemployment Bonus Experiments, which were conducted...

Instrumental Variable Estimation for Duration Data: A reappraisal of the Illinois Reemployment Bonus Experiment

In this article we focus on time-to-event studies with a randomised treatment assignment that may be compromised by selective compliance. Contrary to most of the extensive literature on evaluation studies we do not consider the effect of the treatment on some average outcome but on the hazard rate. In time-to-event studies the treatment may vary over time. Another complication of duration data ...

the effect of taftan pozzolan on the compressive strength of concrete in the environmental conditions of oman sea (chabahar port)

cement is an essential ingredient in the concrete buildings. for production of cement considerable amount of fossil fuel and electrical energy is consumed. on the other hand for generating one tone of portland cement, nearly one ton of carbon dioxide is released. it shows that 7 percent of the total released carbon dioxide in the world relates to the cement industry. considering ecological issu...