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Structural Empirical Evaluation of Job Search Monitoring

den Berg, Gerard J. van; van der Klaauw, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

. The data are from a randomized experiment conducted in the Netherlands. They include registers of post-unemployment … monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes. We find that the option to climb the job ladder reduces substitution between … search channels during unemployment and compensates for adverse long-run effects of monitoring on wages. We use the …

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Monitoring Job Offer Decisions, Punishments, Exit to Work, and Job Quality

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Vikström, Johan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …

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From Giving Birth to Paid Labor: The Effects of Adult Education for Prime-Aged Mothers

Bergemann, Annette; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

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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Counseling and Monitoring of Unemployed Workers: Theory and Evidence from a Controlled Social Experiment

den Berg, Gerard J. van; van der Klaauw, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

We investigate the effect of counseling and monitoring on the individual transition rate to employment. We theoretically analyze these policies in a job search model with two search channels and endogenous search effort. In the empirical analysis we use unique administrative and survey data...

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Sanctions for Young Welfare Recipients

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Social welfare systems usually imply specific obligations for benefit recipients. If a recipient does not comply with these obligations, a sanction involving a punitive benefits reduction may be imposed. In this paper we give an overview of the literature on the effects of sanctions in social...

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Analyzing the Anticipation of Treatments Using Data on Notification Dates

Crépon, Bruno; Ferracci, Marc; Jolivet, Grégory; den … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

that notification has a significant and positive effect on unemployment duration. This result violates the standard "no …

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The IZA Evaluation Dataset: Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making

Caliendo, Marco; Falk, Armin; Kaiser, Lutz C.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

innovative survey data. The administrative part of the dataset consists of a large random sample of inflows into unemployment in …,000 individuals who entered unemployment between June 2007 and May 2008. They were initially interviewed shortly after becoming …

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To Meet or Not to Meet (Your Case Worker) – That is the Question

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Kjaersgaard, Lene; Rosholm, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

unemployment to employment using detailed Danish event history data obtained from administrative registers. We find large positive …

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Empirical Labor Search: A Survey

Eckstein, Zvi; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual characteristics. The starting points of the literature are...

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Stepping Stones for the Unemployed: The Effect of Temporary Jobs on the Duration until Regular Work

Zijl, Marloes; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Heyma, Arjan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from … unemployment to temporary jobs and unobserved determinants of the transition rates. The data contain multiple spells in labour … unemployment and they substantially increase the fraction of unemployed workers who have regular work within a few years after …

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