Do unemployment benefits help those seeking work to obtain better jobs?
Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and reducing their incentive to look for work. Often overlooked in the public debate is that such support can increase the quality (in terms of wages and duration) of the work found by th...
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| description | Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and reducing their incentive to look for work. Often overlooked in the public debate is that such support can increase the quality (in terms of wages and duration) of the work found by the unemployed by increasing the time and resources available to an individual to obtain a better job. |
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| spelling | nottingham-461512020-05-04T16:48:52Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46151/ Do unemployment benefits help those seeking work to obtain better jobs? Tatsiramos, Konstantinos Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and reducing their incentive to look for work. Often overlooked in the public debate is that such support can increase the quality (in terms of wages and duration) of the work found by the unemployed by increasing the time and resources available to an individual to obtain a better job. IZA 2014-07-01 Article PeerReviewed Tatsiramos, Konstantinos (2014) Do unemployment benefits help those seeking work to obtain better jobs? IZA World of Labor . ISSN 2054-9571 Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and reducing their incentive to look for work. Often overlooked in the public debate is that such support can increase the quality (in terms of wages and duration) of the work found by the unemployed by increasing the time and resources available to an individual to obtain a better job. https://wol.iza.org/articles/unemployment-benefits-and-job-match-quality doi:10.15185/izawol.44 doi:10.15185/izawol.44 |
| spellingShingle | Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and reducing their incentive to look for work. Often overlooked in the public debate is that such support can increase the quality (in terms of wages and duration) of the work found by the unemployed by increasing the time and resources available to an individual to obtain a better job. Tatsiramos, Konstantinos Do unemployment benefits help those seeking work to obtain better jobs? |
| title | Do unemployment benefits help those seeking work to obtain better jobs? |
| title_full | Do unemployment benefits help those seeking work to obtain better jobs? |
| title_fullStr | Do unemployment benefits help those seeking work to obtain better jobs? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Do unemployment benefits help those seeking work to obtain better jobs? |
| title_short | Do unemployment benefits help those seeking work to obtain better jobs? |
| title_sort | do unemployment benefits help those seeking work to obtain better jobs? |
| topic | Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and reducing their incentive to look for work. Often overlooked in the public debate is that such support can increase the quality (in terms of wages and duration) of the work found by the unemployed by increasing the time and resources available to an individual to obtain a better job. |
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