The Effect of Sanctions on the Job Finding Rate: Evidence from Denmark This paper investigates the effect of sanctions of unemployment insurance benefits on the exit rate from unemployment for a sample of Danish unemployed. According to the findings are that even moderate sanctions have rather large effects. For both males and females the exit rate increases by more than 50% following impositio...

Spatial Disparities in Hospital Performance Using a French exhaustive dataset, this paper studies the determinants of regional disparities in mortality for patients admitted to hospitals for a heart attack. These disparities are large, with an 80% difference in the propensity to die within 15 days between extreme regions. They may reflect spatial differences in patient characteristics, treatmen...

Do You Need a Job to Find a Job? This paper investigates whether job offers arrive more frequently for those in employment than for those in unemployment. To this end, we take advantage of a unique Australian data set which contains information on both accepted and rejected job offers. Our estimation strategy takes account of the selectivity associated with the initial employment state and we a...

Bank-speci…c determinants of bank failure during the …nancial crisis in Colombia are identi…ed and studied using duration analysis. The process of failure of banks and related …nancial institutions during that period can be explained by di¤erences in …nancial health and prudence across institutions. The capitalization ratio is the most signi…cant indicator explaining bank failure. Increases in ...

The lemons model assumes that owners of used cars have an informational advantage over potential buyers with respect to the quality of their vehicles. Owners of bad cars will try to sell them to unsuspecting buyers while owners of good cars will hold on to theirs. Consequently, the quality of traded automobiles should be sub-average. In contrast to previous work, the following paper tests both ...

This paper investigates the underlying influencing factors of the premature death of children, specifically looking at the correlation between mortality risk of children and parental disadvantage at an individual level. Largely due to lack of appropriate data, this issue is not well explored in Australia. This paper tries to fill in the gap by creatively using a unique administrative dataset of...

Income Support Policies for Part-Time Workers: A Stepping-Stone to Regular Jobs? An Application to Young Long-Term Unemployed Women in Belgium We verify whether an income support policy for part-time workers in Belgium increases the transition from unemployment to non-subsidised, “regular” employment. Using a sample of 8630 long-term unemployed young women, whose labour market history is observ...

We estimate the effect of initial episodes under fixed-term contracts (FTCs) on job duration in the further course of the employment spell, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) from 1985 to 2002. Using a statistical matching approach, we find that job exit rates are initially much higher if the employment spell began with an FTC. However, exit rates fall below those of compara...

We study how a reduction of the potential duration of unemployment benefit receipt (PBD) affects medium-run earnings and employment of job seekers. The analysis is based on a Swiss reform that reduced PBD from 24 months to 18 months for job seekers younger than 55 years in 2003. Adopting a difference-indifference framework, we find that this reduction in PBD increases employment and earnings of...