Unemployment Duration and the Take-up of Unemployment Insurance
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Keywords
unemployment insurance; take-up; job search;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- 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
- C41 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Duration Analysis; Optimal Timing Strategies
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DGE-2021-01-25 (Dynamic General Equilibrium)
- NEP-EUR-2021-01-25 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-IAS-2021-01-25 (Insurance Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2021-01-25 (Labour Economics)
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