Essays on Unemployment Insurance

Can the potential availability of unemployment insurance (UI) affect the behavior of employed workers and the duration of their employment spells? After discussing few straightforward reasons why UI may affect employment duration, I apply a regression kink design (RKD) to address this question using...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gerhard Castro de Britto, Diogo <1987>
Other Authors: Zanella, Giulio
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:en
Published: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna 2015
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Online Access:http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/7249/