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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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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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the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were asked for their perceived probability of …
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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 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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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 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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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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an unemployed persona will accept a job offer), the income replacement rate of unemployment benefit (IRUB) and … understanding of search behaviour and unemployment durations. The data also indicate that the roles of search behaviour and …
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of incumbent workers have substantial effects on separations and unemployment volatility. Allowing for an empirically … relevant degree of wage rigidities for incumbent workers drives unemployment volatility, as well as the volatility of vacancies …
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