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Browsing Department of Economics (ECO) by Subject "Unemployment"
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Title:Cash-on-Hand and the Duration of Job Search. Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Norway
Author(s):BASTEN, Christoph; FAGERENG, Andreas; TELLE, KjetilDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a discontinuity in eligibility at age 50. We find that a severance payment worth 1.2 months’ earnings at the ...
Title:Technology Adoption, Turbulence and the Dynamics of Unemployment
Author(s):DUERNECKER, GeorgDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract: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 ...