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Is the Notification of Monitoring a Threat to the Unemployed? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2021

In July 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the Unemployment Insurance scheme. Workers claiming unemployment benefits for more than 13 months are notified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later. In one region the target group is counselled shortly...

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How Effective are Hiring Subsidies to Reduce Long-Term Unemployment Among Prime-Aged Jobseekers? Evidence from Belgium

Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - 2021

Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a...

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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Unemployed Youths—Beware of Spillovers

Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022

We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...

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Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation Over the Business Cycle

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2020

unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … duration distribution, among others. Our analysis shows that "excess" occupational mobility due to workers' changing career …

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Benefit Duration, Job Search Behavior and Re-Employment

Lichter, Andreas - 2020

This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects individuals' job search behavior and re … benefit duration from 12 to 15 months for recipients of age 50 to 54. Based on detailed survey data and difference …

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Persistence in youth unemployment

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - 2012

This paper examines the degree of persistence of youth unemployment (total, male and female) in twenty-four countries by using two alternative measures: the AR coefficient and the fractional differencing parameter, based on short- and long-memory processes respectively. The evidence suggests...

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Switching from an Inclining to a Zero-Level Unemployment Benefit Profile: Good for Work Incentives?

Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Inga, Leda - 2020

This paper evaluates the impact on the transition to work of a policy reform in Belgium that restricted the access to a specific unemployment insurance scheme for young labor market entrants. This scheme entitles youths with no or little labor market experience to unemployment benefits after a...

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Wating Longer Before Claiming, and Activating Youth. No Point?

Cockx, Bart; van Belle, Eva - 2016

In Belgium school-leavers are entitled to unemployment benefits after a waiting period and eligible to intensified counselling and training in the Youth Work Plan (YWP) if a job is not found within three months. The length of the waiting period and eligibility to the YWP are sharply determined...

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Patterns of current account adjustment: insights from past experience

Algieri, Bernardina; Bracke, Thierry - 2007

The paper examines episodes of current account adjustment in individual economies. A central finding is that these episodes are very divergent and can be usefully classified, on the basis of cluster analysis, in three groups. A majority of cases is characterised by internal adjustment,...

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Patterns of Current Account Adjustment - Insights from Past Experience

Algieri, Bernardina; Bracke, Thierry - 2021

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