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Quick Job Entry or Long-Term Human Capital Devlopment? The Dynamic Effects of Alternative Training Schemes

Osikominu, Aderonke - 2012

This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human capital intensive training programs work. We evaluate and compare their effects on time until job entry, stability of employment, and earnings. Further, we examine the...

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Estimating Equilibrium Effects of Job Search Assistance

Gautier, Pieter - 2015

Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there are no spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that this assumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers. Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...

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Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies : The Role of Job Search Assistance

Wunsch, Conny - 2010

duration dependence in the exit rates to employment and potential depreciation in reemployment wages. We show that the main …

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Sensitivity of Matching-Based Program Evaluations to the Availability of Control Variables

Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2021

the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching estimation leads to biased impact estimates …

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Persistence in Youth Unemployment

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 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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Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation Over the Business Cycle

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2013

negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …

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How Do Extended Benefits Affect Unemployment Duration? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Lalive, Rafael - 2008

This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks … regions to identify the effect of extended benefits on unemployment duration. Results indicate that the duration of job search … is prolonged by at least .09 weeks per additional week of benefits among men, whereas unemployment duration increases by …

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Work Incentives? Ex Post Effects of Unemployment Insurance Sanctions - Evidence from West Germany

Hofmann, Barbara - 2008

Unemployment insurance (UI) sanctions in the form of benefit reductions are intended to set disincentives for UI recipients to stay unemployed. Empirical evidence about the effects of UI sanctions in Germany is sparse. Using administrative data we investigate the effects of sanctions on the...

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Immigration, Search, and Redistribution : A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare

Battisti, Michele - 2014

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...

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Returns to On-the-Job Search and the Dispersion of Wages

Gottfries, Axel - 2017

develop a simple methodology to test predictions implied by OJS using two sources of identification: (i) time-variation in job …-finding rates and (ii) the time since the last lay-off. Conditional on the termination date of the job, job duration should be …

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