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Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment Rates of Low-Skilled and Elder Workers in West Germany : A Search Equilibrium Approach

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dc.creator Klasen, Stephan
dc.creator Wolff, Joachim
dc.creator Launov, Andrey
dc.date 2004
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:10:22Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:10:22Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20399
dc.identifier ppn:38819054X
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20399
dc.description In this paper we investigate whether the extension of the entitlement to unemployment benefits in the mid 80s can explain the increase in the unemployment rates of unskilled and elder workers in western Germany. To answer this question we estimate a version of the Burdett-Mortensen search equilibrium model and analyze how workers? search behaviour responded to these reforms. We try both nonparametric and fully-parametric estimation methods and identify the cases in which the nonparametric approach cannot be applied. We find that the entitlement reforms are largely responsible for the increase of unemployment among unskilled workers.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation IZA Discussion paper series 1161
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject J64
dc.subject J65
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject search equilibrium
dc.subject unemployment benefit
dc.subject parametric estimation
dc.subject Germany
dc.subject Arbeitslosigkeit
dc.subject Ungelernte Arbeitskräfte
dc.subject Ältere Arbeitskräfte
dc.subject Arbeitsuche
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Deutschland
dc.title Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment Rates of Low-Skilled and Elder Workers in West Germany : A Search Equilibrium Approach
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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