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Quick job entry or long-term human capital development? : 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 … remaining time in unemployment and moderately increases job stability. Long-term training programs initially prolong the …
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Screening through activation : differential effects of a youth activation programme
Hall, Caroline; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Liljeberg, Linus; … - 2017
We study the dual role of active labour market policies: First, ALMP may perform a screening role by increasing job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597177
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Does active labour market policy work? : lessons from the Swedish experiences
Calmfors, Lars; Forslund, Anders; Hemström, Maria - 2002
The Swedish experiences of the 1990s provide a unique example of how large-scale active labour market programmes (ALMPs) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper surveys the empirical studies of the effects of ALMPs in Sweden. On the whole, ALMPs have probably reduced...
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The employment effect of reforming a public employment agency
Launov, Andrey; Wälde, Klaus - 2015
By how much does an increase in operating effectiveness of a public employment agency (PEA) and a reduction of unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309228
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Priority to unemployed immigrants : a Causal machine learning evaluation of training in Belgium
Cockx, Bart; Lechner, Michael; Bollens, Joost - 2020
Based on administrative data of unemployed in Belgium, we estimate the labour market effects of three training programmes at various aggregation levels using Modified Causal Forests, a causal machine learning estimator. While all programmes have positive effects after the lock-in period, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219355
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Income support, (un-)employment and well-being
Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; Wolf, Tobias - 2016
Using specific panel data of German welfare benefit recipients, we investigate the nonpecuniary life satisfaction effects of in-work benefits. Our empirical strategy combines difference-in-difference designs with synthetic control groups to analyze transitions of workers between unemployment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515336
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Spanish unemployment : the end of the wild ride?
Bentolila, Samuel; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2003
Over the last quarter century, the Spanish unemployment rate has gone from 3.5 per cent to 24 per cent of the labor force, and then back to 13 per cent. In this paper we describe this extraordinary evolution more in detail, discuss the main shocks and institutions behind it, and provide a set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507890
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Learning about job search : a field experiment with job seekers in Germany
Altmann, Steffen; Falk, Armin; Jäger, Simon; … - 2015
job seekers' employment prospects and labor market outcomes. Individuals assigned to the treatment group of our experiment … received a brochure that informed them about job search strategies and the consequences of unemployment, and motivated them to … untreated job seekers in administrative data containing comprehensive information on individuals' employment status and earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010518786
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805997
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Vacancy referrals, job search, and the duration of unemployment : a randomized experiment
Engström, Per; Hesselius, Patrik; Holmlund, Bertil - 2009
One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies …; another goal is to monitor job search so as to bring search efforts among the unemployed in line with search requirements. The … referral of job seekers to vacancies is one instrument used for these purposes. We report results from a randomized Swedish …
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