Browsing Department of Economics (ECO) by Subject "J64"

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    Title: Claiming Social Security Benefits Early to Retire Later  Author(s): FAWAZ, Yarine Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper examines Social Security benefit claiming behavior in the US using the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to implement a duration model. It focuses essentially on the rushing/delaying behavior of the unemployed ...
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    Title: Technology Adoption, Turbulence and the Dynamics of Unemployment  Author(s): DUERNECKER, Georg Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: The divergence of unemployment rates between the U.S. and Europe coincided with a substantial acceleration in capital-embodied technical change in the late 70’s. Furthermore, evidence suggests that European economies ...
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    Title: Reassessing Labor Market Reforms: Temporary Contracts as a Screening Device  Author(s): FACCINI, Renato Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: Standard models of temporary contracts are either inconclusive, or fail to ac- count for the positive correlation between temporary contracts and the employ- ment rate, and for the high transition rates into permanent ...
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    Title: Unemployment and Within-Group Wage Inequality: Can Information Explain the Trade-Off?  Author(s): FACCINI, Renato Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: In Italy, following WWII, speci c hiring procedures were developed that prevented rms from screening workers. More in particular, these institutions char- acterized the Italian labor market with respect to the US labor ...
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    Title: Asset Based Unemployment Insurance  Author(s): RENDAHL, Pontus Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: This paper studies a model of optimal redistribution policies in which agents face unemployment risk and in which savings may provide partial self-insurance. Moral hazard arises as job search effort is unobservable. The ...