Savings for Unemployment in Good or Bad Times: Options for Developing Countries The paper describes and evaluates unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) – a relatively new and not well-known way of providing unemployment benefits. The UISAs reduce work disincentives by allowing recipients to keep their own unused unemployment contributions, and offer the possibility to extend coverage ...

We exploit data from the 1986–87 Washington Alternative Work Search experiment (merged with nine years of follow-up administrative wage records) to estimate the causal effects of eliminating the unemployment insurance (UI) work search requirement (WSR) on duration of nonemployment, tenure with first post-claim employer, number of post-claim employers, long­ term earnings, employment, and hours ...

Labour Mobility of Immigrants: Training, Experience, Language and Opportunities* This Paper analyses the labour mobility and human capital accumulation of male immigrants who moved from the former Soviet Union to Israel. We formulate an estimable dynamic choice model for employment and training in blue and white-collar occupations, where the labour market randomly offered opportunities are affe...

Our small empirical stock-flow model for the Dutch economy, which endogenizes the adjustment dynamics to (un)employment search equilibria, identifies two mechanisms that caused persistence in labor market adjustments: (i) job competition from non-participants, and (ii) asymmetric adjustments to cyclical shocks. At the core of the model is an estimated matching function. Using Dutch flow data fo...

researches in exploring of driving forces of regional endogenous development, concentrate on subjects which have been so controversial. regional endogenous development (red), together with other core regional development concepts, is usually focused on the sub-national regional development process of the home country. this paper attempts to conceptualize and examine regional endogenous developm...

Do Migrants Get Good Jobs? New Migrant Settlement in Australia ∗ This paper investigates the ease with which recent immigrants to Australia from different countries and with different visa categories enter employment at an appropriate level to their prior education and experience in the source country. Unlike most of the earlier research in this field that studied the labour market status of mi...

Reducing Income Transfers to Refugee Immigrants: Does Starthelp Help You Start? In this paper we estimate the causal effect of lowering the public income transfers administered to newly arrived refugee immigrants in Denmark – the so-called starthelp – using a competing risk mixed proportional hazard framework. The two competing risks are exit to job and exit out of the labour force. A standard ...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classifications: C14 C15 C41 J64 J65 J68 Keywords: Multivariate hazards Job search Job quality Timing-of-events NPMLE MMPH We examine the impacts of time-limited unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market programs (ALMP) on the duration and outcome of job search in Norway. We use a comprehensive simultaneous equations model accounting for i) the duration of un...