[…] vesting period from 10 to 5 years should increase mobility in Germany by 8%. An indexation of preserved benefits (for vested early leavers) would have a larger impact, increasing mobility by 22%. However, these increases are from low initial mobility rates. Both shorter vesting periods and an indexation of benefits would also reduce retirement […]

[…] levels of stigma and other claim costs and non-claimants tend to be those with high levels of claim cost. A further aim is to assess the potential impact of implicit claim costs on the measurement of poverty. Implicit costs are found to be moderate for most IS recipients, typically around £3-4 per week (or […]

[…] of ‘ethnic capital’ in the life chances of minority ethnic groups. I use the British Home Office Citizenship Survey 2001 for England and Wales to explore the impact on four aspects of lack of social engagement of long-term illness, caring for someone with such an illness, and ethnicity. Controlling for a range of characteristics […]

[…] wage rate is negative in a pooled regression, controlling for individual and industry fixed effects as well as for the endogeneity of unemployment results in a positive impact. We find that the average wage differential for seasonal jobs is about 11% percent of the wage in a permanent job, and that a similar amount […]