Job search requirements for older unemployed: Transitions to employment, early retirement and disability benefits
In this paper, we use a recent policy change in the Netherlands to study how changes in search requirements for the older unemployed affect their transition rates to employment, early retirement and sickness/disability benefits. The reform, becoming effective on January 1st 2004, required the elderly to formally report their job search efforts to the employment office in order to avoid a (temporary) cut in benefits. Before the new law was passed, unemployed were allowed to stop all search activity at the moment they turned 57.5. Estimating various duration models using difference-in-difference... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | doc-type:workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2011 |
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Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Schlagwörter: | ddc:330 / C31 / J26 / J64 / J68 / duration analysis / policy evaluation / search effort / substitution / Arbeitslosigkeit / Arbeitsuche / Ältere Arbeitskräfte / Beschäftigungseffekt / Niederlande |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26860511 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/45985 |