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Demand for Higher Education Programs : The Impact of the Bologna Process

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Portela, Miguel; Sa, Carla; … - 2021

restructuring of higher education currently underway, by looking at its implications on the demand for academic programs. It … quantification of the demand for each academic program is facilitated by the rules of access to higher education, in a nation … principles were subject to higher demand than comparable programs that did not restructure, as if Bologna were understood as a …

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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 - 2022

abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its …

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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, … - 2008

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...

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Imperfect Monitoring of Job Search : Structural Estimation and Policy Design

Cockx, Bart - 2017

We build and estimate a non-stationary structural job search model that incorporates the main stylized features of a typical job search monitoring scheme in unemployment insurance (UI) and acknowledges that search effort and requirements are measured imperfectly. Based on Belgian data,...

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Misalignment of Productivity and Wages Across Regions? Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data

Rycx, François - 2016

-employee panel data for Belgium and rely on methodological approaches from both Hellerstein and Neumark (1995) and Bartolucci (2014 …

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Social Security Incentives in Belgium : An Analysis of Four Decades of Change

Fraikin, Anne-Lore - 2018

performance in Belgium. The results show that the numerous retirement and social security program reforms have had a marked impact …

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Productivity and Wage Effects of Firm-Level Collective Agreements : Evidence from Belgian Linked Panel Data

Garnero, Andrea - 2018

How do firm-level collective agreements affect firm performance in a multi-level bargaining system? Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data, our findings show that firm agreements increase both wage costs and productivity (with respect to sector-level agreements). Relying on a...

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The Impact of Sickness Absenteeism on Productivity : New Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data

Grinza, Elena - 2018

We investigate the impact of sickness absenteeism on productivity by using rich longitudinal matched employer-employee data on Belgian private firms. We deal with endogeneity, which arises from unobserved firm heterogeneity and reverse causality, by applying a modified version of the Ackerberg...

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Does Migration Motive Matter for Migrants' Employment Outcomes? The Case of Belgium

Lens, Dries - 2018

integration programmes, family policies and career and diversity plans, the native-migrant employment gap in Belgium is still one … investigates how the motive for migrating to Belgium contributes to the native-migrant employment gap.Based on data from the 2014 …

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Is Quick Formal Access to the Labor Market Enough? Refugees' Labor Market Integration in Belgium

Lens, Dries - 2018

This paper examines the labor market trajectories of refugees who arrived in Belgium between 2003 and 2009. Belgium has …

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