Arbeitspapier
Engineering an incentive to search for work: A comparison groups approach
Social comparisons are important in the employment sphere. A "culture of unemployment" may evolve and prevail because it is optimal for an individual to remain unemployed when other unemployed individuals constitute his main reference group. We advance the idea that by making the receipt of unemployment benefits conditional on engagement in an incentive-enhancing activity (for example, work under state-sponsored employment schemes or participation in work-site-based training programs), a government can engineer a revision of the reference groups of an unemployed individual in order to induce him to seek work.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance ; No. 80
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Microeconomic Policy: Formulation, Implementation, and Evaluation
Welfare Economics: Other
National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings
- Thema
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Unemployment benefits
Social comparisons
Relative deprivation
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Stark, Oded
Jakubek, Marcin
Kobus, Martyna
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Tübingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
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Tübingen
- (wann)
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2015
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Stark, Oded
- Jakubek, Marcin
- Kobus, Martyna
- University of Tübingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
Entstanden
- 2015
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