The Newly Unemployed and the UIF Take-up Rate in the South African Labour Market
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Keywords
Cox proportional hazards model; Claim-waiting period; Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF); Income Replacement Rates (IRR); Semi-parametric models; unemployment benefits; Survival Analysis; claiming incentives; moral hazard.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General
- J08 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics Policies
- J18 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Public Policy
- J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
- J65 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2012-10-06 (Africa)
- NEP-IAS-2012-10-06 (Insurance Economics)
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