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Hensvik, Lena; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Rathelot, Roland - 2021

This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and job ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, new vacancy postings drop by 40%, similar to the US. Second, job seekers respond by searching less intensively, to the...

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Unemployment and endogenous reallocation over the business cycle

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - 2013 - This version: January 2013, First version: June 2010

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a … negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …

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Employed and unemployed job seekers and the business cycle

Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark P. - 2013

The job search literature suggests that on-the-job search reduces the probability of unemployed people finding a job. However, there is little evidence that employed and unemployed job seekers are similar or apply for the same jobs. We compare employed and unemployed job seekers in terms of...

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From giving birth to paid labor : the effects of adult education for prime-aged mothers

Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2014

Women without work after childbirth are at risk of losing their connection to the labor market. However, they may participate in adult education programs. We analyze the effect of this on the duration to work and on the wage rate, by applying conditional difference-in-differences approaches. We...

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Predicting re-employment : machine learning versus assessments by unemployed workers and by their caseworkers

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Kunaschk, Max; Lang, Julia; … - 2023

the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were asked for their perceived probability of …

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Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers: a randomized controlled field experiment in Germany

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Stephan, Gesine - 2021

Integration Agreement (IA) are contracts between the employment agency and the unemployed, nudging the latter to comply with rules on search behavior. We designed and implemented an RCT involving thousands of newly unemployed workers, randomizing at the individual level both the timing of the IA...

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Active labor market policies

Crépon, Bruno; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2016

Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have been published. In this review, we critically assess policy effectiveness. We emphasize insights from recent randomized...

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Structural empirical evaluation of job search monitoring

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2015

To evaluate search effort monitoring of unemployed workers, it is important to take account of post-unemployment wages … of monitoring is randomized. They include registers of post-unemployment outcomes like wages and job mobility, and survey … data on measures of search behavior. As such we are the first to study monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes …

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The impact of sanctions for young welfare recipients on transitions to work and wages and on dropping out

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2019

The reintegration of young welfare recipients into the labor market is a major policy goal in many European countries. In this context monitoring and sanctions are important policy tools. In this paper, we analyze the impact of strict sanctions on job search outcomes for young welfare recipients...

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Does job search assistance reduce unemployment? : experimental evidence on displacement effects and mechanisms

Cheung, Maria; Egebark, Johan; Forslund, Anders; Laun, Lisa - 2019

assistance. Our findings show that the assistance reduces unemployment among the treated, but also creates substantial … displacement leading to higher unemployment for the non-treated. By using detailed information on caseworker and job seeker … unemployment and slightly reduced government spending. …

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