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This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in a first-order way on the structure of retirement policies. Using German data, we first present reduced-form evidence of these interactions, documenting large bunching in UI...
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In a randomised controlled trial in Austria, lowering caseloads for caseworkers in a Public Employment Office led to more meetings with unemployed clients, more job offers, more programme assignments, and more sanctions for noncompliance with job search requirements. It shortened unemployment...
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employment. It focuses on clients who receive means-tested basic income for the unemployed, based on data from the Panel Study …
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reform on the unemployment rate and the average unemployment duration using municipality-level panel data and various panel …
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: vocational training, vocational training combined with matching youth to firms, and matching only. Training is offered in sectors … with high quality firms. The matching intervention assigns workers for interviews with such firms. At baseline, unskilled … firms. However, youth additionally offered matching become discouraged because call back rates from firm owners are far …
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Most governments are mandated to maintain their economies at full employment. We propose that the best marker of full employment is the efficient unemployment rate, u*. We define u* as the unemployment rate that minimizes the nonproductive use of labor--both jobseeking and recruiting. The...
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Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in important areas, including macro-economic efficiency, workers’ well-being and repercussions for social cohesion. EU-28 countries have started a new wave of labor market reforms...
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social status mediates this association and that self‑efficacy moderates it. We use data from the German panel study "Labour …
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Since the beginning of the recession period in Europe, unemployment has greatly affected the young adult population. In this context, Spain is regarded as an extreme case, due to its exceptionally high youth unemployment rates. This article seeks to identify the determinants that have led...
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Most studies on benefit sanctions within the German welfare system rely on established datasets about welfare receipt. This paper analyzes how using a dataset from the operational system of the German Federal Employment Agency for processing welfare claims can contribute to further research on...
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