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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 employment, and earnings. Further, we examine the...

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Optimal use of labor market policies : the role of job search assistance

Wunsch, Conny - 2009

This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation measures such as monitoring and job search assistance...

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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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Waiting 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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Screening through activation : differential effects of a youth activation programme

Hall, Caroline King Barnard; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; … - 2017

We study the dual role of active labour market policies: First, ALMP may perform a screening role by increasing job-finding rates among individuals with good labour market prospects, already prior to programme participation. Second, actual program participation may help individuals with poor...

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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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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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Vacancy referrals, job search, and the duration of unemployment : a randomized experiment

Engström, Per; Hesselius, Patrik; Holmlund, Bertil - 2009

experiment where the outcome of referrals is examined. To what extent do unemployed individuals actually apply for the jobs they … probability of leaving unemployment? The experiment indicates that a relatively large fraction (one third) of the referrals do not … matching ; job search ; randomized experiment …

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The exhaustion of unemployment benefits in Belgium : does it enhance the probability of employment?

Cockx, Bart; Ries, Jean - 2004

In Belgium unemployment insurance benefits can only exhaust for one category of workers: partners of workers with (replacement) labour income (mostly women) may loose their entitlement after an unemployment duration ranging from two to eight years, depending on individual characteristics. We...

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Estimating incentive and welfare effects of non-stationary unemployment benefits

Launov, Andrey; Wälde, Klaus - 2010

The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits displays a time-varying exit rate. Building on Semi-Markov processes, we translate these exit rates into an expression for the aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation...

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