Debra Hevenstone
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 335213 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Debra Hevenstone |
| NOMBRES | Debra |
| APELLIDO | Hevenstone |
| FIRMA | HEVENSTONE D |
| AFILIACIONES | Bern University of Applied Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9555-2497 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Unemployment Insurance and the Family
We investigate how unemployment insurance generosity impacts reemployment and economic precarity by family type. With Swiss longitudinal administrative data and a regression discontinuity design using potential benefit duration, we examine differences between single households and primary and secondary or equal earners, as well as differences by gender and presence of children. Less generous unemployment insurance (shorter potential benefit durat…
What limits intra-household insurance or the 'Added Worker Effect
The 'Added Worker Effect' (AWE) theory posits that partners of the unemployed provide intra-household insurance by increasing their earnings. However, estimates of the AWE are small. Popular explanations include lacking need (e.g. due to generous unemployment benefits), capacity or willingness to increase earnings, though these explanations are seldom tested systematically. Using Swiss administrative data and difference-in-differences estimates, …
Why is impact measurement abandoned in practice? Evidence use in evaluation and contracting for five European Social Impact Bonds
Despite broad consensus on the importance of measuring “impact,” the term is not always understood as estimating counterfactual and causal estimates. We examine a type of public sector financing, “Social Impact Bonds,” a scheme where investors front money for public services, with repayment conditional on impact. We examine five cases in four European countries of Social Impact Bonds financing active labor market programs, testing the claim that …
Weathering the storm together
This study examines whether unemployment insurance benefit generosity impacts divorce, drawing on full population administrative data and a Swiss reform that reduced unemployment insurance maximum benefit duration. We assess the effect of the reform by comparing the pre- to the post-reform change in divorce rates among unemployed individuals who were affected by the reform with the change in divorce rates among a statistically balanced group of u…
American Myth of Markets in Social Policy
Norm enforcement in the city revisited
In laboratory experiments, people are willing to sanction norms at a cost-a behavioral tendency called altruistic punishment. However, the degree to which these findings can be generalized to real-world interactions is still debated. Only a small number of field experiments have been conducted, and initial results suggest that punishment is less frequent outside of the lab. This study replicates one of the first field experiments on altruistic pu…
The American Myth of Markets in Social Policy
The American Myth of Markets in Social Policy examines how implementing American tropes in policy design inadvertently frustrates policy goals. The book investigates multiple market-oriented designs i
Flexicurity, Happiness, and Satisfaction
Many policy analysts and researchers endorse a "flexicurity" approach to labor market protections—a package of policies that simultaneously offers workers security and firms flexibility. Definitions of flexicurity are often vague and analysts focus on studying the unintended effects of policy on unemployment or labor market participation rates rather than the policies' goals, such as improving workers' security and satisfaction. This article exam…
National Context and Atypical Employment
This article takes a macro-approach, examining country-level determinants of three types of atypical employment (fixed-term, part-time and self-employment) in 30 developed countries. Support is found for three hypotheses: atypical work arrangements are more prevalent (1) when there is a strong entrepreneurial culture, (2) when there are legal constraints on firms’ ability to hire and fire workers and (3) when economic constraints force workers to…
Employment Intermediaries
This paper introduces a micro-simulation of job-worker matching with intermediaries (i.e., temp agencies). While many suggest that firms hire workers through intermediaries to save money on compensation, this paper finds that in a world of limited information and geographically limited job search, intermediaries' human resources ability could be a strong enough incentive, independent of compensation. The study also has some auxiliary findings sho…
Views on Policy
Norm enforcement in the city revisited
In laboratory experiments, people are willing to sanction norms at a cost-a behavioral tendency called altruistic punishment. However, the degree to which these findings can be generalized to real-world interactions is still debated. Only a small number of field experiments have been conducted, and initial results suggest that punishment is less frequent outside of the lab. This study replicates one of the first field experiments on altruistic pu…
Why is impact measurement abandoned in practice? Evidence use in evaluation and contracting for five European Social Impact Bonds
Despite broad consensus on the importance of measuring “impact,” the term is not always understood as estimating counterfactual and causal estimates. We examine a type of public sector financing, “Social Impact Bonds,” a scheme where investors front money for public services, with repayment conditional on impact. We examine five cases in four European countries of Social Impact Bonds financing active labor market programs, testing the claim that …
Flexicurity, Happiness, and Satisfaction
Many policy analysts and researchers endorse a "flexicurity" approach to labor market protections—a package of policies that simultaneously offers workers security and firms flexibility. Definitions of flexicurity are often vague and analysts focus on studying the unintended effects of policy on unemployment or labor market participation rates rather than the policies' goals, such as improving workers' security and satisfaction. This article exam…
National Context and Atypical Employment
This article takes a macro-approach, examining country-level determinants of three types of atypical employment (fixed-term, part-time and self-employment) in 30 developed countries. Support is found for three hypotheses: atypical work arrangements are more prevalent (1) when there is a strong entrepreneurial culture, (2) when there are legal constraints on firms’ ability to hire and fire workers and (3) when economic constraints force workers to…
What limits intra-household insurance or the 'Added Worker Effect
The 'Added Worker Effect' (AWE) theory posits that partners of the unemployed provide intra-household insurance by increasing their earnings. However, estimates of the AWE are small. Popular explanations include lacking need (e.g. due to generous unemployment benefits), capacity or willingness to increase earnings, though these explanations are seldom tested systematically. Using Swiss administrative data and difference-in-differences estimates, …
Weathering the storm together
This study examines whether unemployment insurance benefit generosity impacts divorce, drawing on full population administrative data and a Swiss reform that reduced unemployment insurance maximum benefit duration. We assess the effect of the reform by comparing the pre- to the post-reform change in divorce rates among unemployed individuals who were affected by the reform with the change in divorce rates among a statistically balanced group of u…
Views on Policy
Employment Intermediaries
This paper introduces a micro-simulation of job-worker matching with intermediaries (i.e., temp agencies). While many suggest that firms hire workers through intermediaries to save money on compensation, this paper finds that in a world of limited information and geographically limited job search, intermediaries' human resources ability could be a strong enough incentive, independent of compensation. The study also has some auxiliary findings sho…
National Context and Atypical Employment
This article takes a macro-approach, examining country-level determinants of three types of atypical employment (fixed-term, part-time and self-employment) in 30 developed countries. Support is found for three hypotheses: atypical work arrangements are more prevalent (1) when there is a strong entrepreneurial culture, (2) when there are legal constraints on firms’ ability to hire and fire workers and (3) when economic constraints force workers to…
Flexicurity, Happiness, and Satisfaction
Many policy analysts and researchers endorse a "flexicurity" approach to labor market protections—a package of policies that simultaneously offers workers security and firms flexibility. Definitions of flexicurity are often vague and analysts focus on studying the unintended effects of policy on unemployment or labor market participation rates rather than the policies' goals, such as improving workers' security and satisfaction. This article exam…
The American Myth of Markets in Social Policy
The American Myth of Markets in Social Policy examines how implementing American tropes in policy design inadvertently frustrates policy goals. The book investigates multiple market-oriented designs i
American Myth of Markets in Social Policy
Norm enforcement in the city revisited
In laboratory experiments, people are willing to sanction norms at a cost-a behavioral tendency called altruistic punishment. However, the degree to which these findings can be generalized to real-world interactions is still debated. Only a small number of field experiments have been conducted, and initial results suggest that punishment is less frequent outside of the lab. This study replicates one of the first field experiments on altruistic pu…
Why is impact measurement abandoned in practice? Evidence use in evaluation and contracting for five European Social Impact Bonds
Despite broad consensus on the importance of measuring “impact,” the term is not always understood as estimating counterfactual and causal estimates. We examine a type of public sector financing, “Social Impact Bonds,” a scheme where investors front money for public services, with repayment conditional on impact. We examine five cases in four European countries of Social Impact Bonds financing active labor market programs, testing the claim that …
Weathering the storm together
This study examines whether unemployment insurance benefit generosity impacts divorce, drawing on full population administrative data and a Swiss reform that reduced unemployment insurance maximum benefit duration. We assess the effect of the reform by comparing the pre- to the post-reform change in divorce rates among unemployed individuals who were affected by the reform with the change in divorce rates among a statistically balanced group of u…
What limits intra-household insurance or the 'Added Worker Effect
The 'Added Worker Effect' (AWE) theory posits that partners of the unemployed provide intra-household insurance by increasing their earnings. However, estimates of the AWE are small. Popular explanations include lacking need (e.g. due to generous unemployment benefits), capacity or willingness to increase earnings, though these explanations are seldom tested systematically. Using Swiss administrative data and difference-in-differences estimates, …
Unemployment Insurance and the Family
We investigate how unemployment insurance generosity impacts reemployment and economic precarity by family type. With Swiss longitudinal administrative data and a regression discontinuity design using potential benefit duration, we examine differences between single households and primary and secondary or equal earners, as well as differences by gender and presence of children. Less generous unemployment insurance (shorter potential benefit durat…
Economics (8 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Labour economics (6 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Economic growth (4 obras) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 obras) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Unemployment (4 obras) · Demographic economics (3 obras)