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Active Labour Market Policies for the Long-Term Unemployed: New Evidence from Causal Machine Learning

Goller, Daniel; Harrer, Tamara; Lechner, Michael; … - 2021

We investigate the effectiveness of three different job-search and training programmes for German long-term unemployed persons. On the basis of an extensive administrative data set, we evaluated the effects of those programmes on various levels of aggregation using Causal Machine Learning. We...

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Faces of Joblessness: Characterising Employment Barriers to Inform Policy

Fernandez, Rodrigo; Immervoll, Herwig; Pacifico, Daniele; … - 2016

This paper proposes a novel method for identifying and visualising key employment obstacles that may prevent individuals from participating fully in the labour market. The approach is intended to complement existing sources of information that governments use when designing and implementing...

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The Iceberg Decomposition: A Parsimonious Way to Map the Health of Labour Markets

Baert, Stijn - 2020

historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …

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Temporary work as an active labor market policy: Evaluating an innovative program for disadvantaged youths

Ehlert, Christoph; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra - 2012

While high rates of youth unemployment are a severe problem in most European countries, the program evaluation …

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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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Can Subsidized Employment Tackle Long-Term Unemployment? Experimental Evidence from North Macedonia

Armand, Alex; Carneiro, Pedro; Tagliati, Federico; Xia, … - 2020

This paper examines the impact of an experiment in North Macedonia in which vulnerable unemployed individuals applying to a subsidized employment program were randomly selected to attend job interviews. Employers hiring a new employee from the target population receive a subsidy covering the...

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Active Labor Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe: A Survey

Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...

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Start-ups by the unemployed: characteristics, survival and direct employment effects

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2007

only the end of unemployment for the new entrepreneur but also some further positive effects, e.g., direct job creation …

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The effectiveness of regional active labour market policies to fight against unemployment: an analysis for Catalonia

Ramos, Raúl; Suriñach, Jordi; Artís, Manuel - 2009

The aim of this work is to assess the effectiveness of active labour market policies carried out by the Catalan Public Employment Services (SOC) during the year 2005. The results obtained from the application of matching techniques show that the probability of finding a job for an individual who...

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The Crime Effect of Refugees

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Mocan, Naci; Tumen, Semih; … - 2022

We analyze the impact on crime of 3.7 million refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in Syria. Using a novel administrative data source on the flow of offense records to prosecutors' offices in 81 provinces of the country each year, and utilizing the staggered...

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