Timed to say goodbye : does unemployment benefit eligibility affect worker layoffs?
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- Andrea Albanese (UGent) , Matteo Picchio (UGent) and Corinna Ghirelli
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- Abstract
- We study how unemployment benefit eligibility affects the layoff exit rate by exploiting quasi-experimental variation in eligibility rules in Italy. By using a difference-in-differences estimator, we find an instantaneous increase of about 12% in the layoff probability when unemployment benefit eligibility is attained, which persists for at least 16 weeks. These findings are robust to different identifying assumptions and are mostly driven by jobs started after the onset of the Great Recession and in the South.
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- Economics and Econometrics, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Unemployment insurance, Layoffs, Employer-employee moral hazard, Difference-in-differences, Heterogeneous effects, REGRESSION-COEFFICIENTS, EXTENDED BENEFITS, INSURANCE, DURATION, TEMPORARY, IDENTIFICATION, SPELLS, COSTS, MICRO
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8673759
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- Albanese, Andrea, et al. “Timed to Say Goodbye : Does Unemployment Benefit Eligibility Affect Worker Layoffs?” LABOUR ECONOMICS, vol. 65, 2020, doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101846.
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- Albanese, A., Picchio, M., & Ghirelli, C. (2020). Timed to say goodbye : does unemployment benefit eligibility affect worker layoffs? LABOUR ECONOMICS, 65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101846
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- Albanese, Andrea, Matteo Picchio, and Corinna Ghirelli. 2020. “Timed to Say Goodbye : Does Unemployment Benefit Eligibility Affect Worker Layoffs?” LABOUR ECONOMICS 65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101846.
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- Albanese, Andrea, Matteo Picchio, and Corinna Ghirelli. 2020. “Timed to Say Goodbye : Does Unemployment Benefit Eligibility Affect Worker Layoffs?” LABOUR ECONOMICS 65. doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101846.
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- 1.Albanese A, Picchio M, Ghirelli C. Timed to say goodbye : does unemployment benefit eligibility affect worker layoffs? LABOUR ECONOMICS. 2020;65.
- IEEE
- [1]A. Albanese, M. Picchio, and C. Ghirelli, “Timed to say goodbye : does unemployment benefit eligibility affect worker layoffs?,” LABOUR ECONOMICS, vol. 65, 2020.
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journal = {{LABOUR ECONOMICS}},
keywords = {{Economics and Econometrics,Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management,Unemployment insurance,Layoffs,Employer-employee moral hazard,Difference-in-differences,Heterogeneous effects,REGRESSION-COEFFICIENTS,EXTENDED BENEFITS,INSURANCE,DURATION,TEMPORARY,IDENTIFICATION,SPELLS,COSTS,MICRO}},
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title = {{Timed to say goodbye : does unemployment benefit eligibility affect worker layoffs?}},
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