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Mitigating long-term unemployment in Europe

Miyamoto, Hiroaki; Suphaphiphat, Nujin - In: IZA journal of labor policy 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-27

While unemployment rates in Europe declined after the global financial crisis until 2018/2019, the incidence of long-term unemployment, the share of people who have been unemployed for 1 year to the total unemployed, remained high. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic could aggravate the long-term...

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How effective are hiring subsidies in reducing long-term unemployment among prime-aged jobseekers? : evidence from Belgium

Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - In: IZA journal of labor policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-38

effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a triple-difference methodology, the hiring subsidy is shown to increase the job …

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Subsidized work before and after the German Hartz reforms : design of major schemes, evaluation results and lessons learnt

Wolff, Joachim; Stephan, Gesine - In: IZA journal of labor policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-24

reason for changes in the effectiveness of job creation schemes. …

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A cross-country comparison of labor market frictions

Ridder, Geert; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2002

In this paper we define and estimate measures of labor market frictions using data on job durations. We compare …, and it allows workers to care about other job characteristics. The empirical analysis focuses on France, but we perform …

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The effect of active labor market programs on not-yet treated unemployed individuals

Berg, Gerard J. van den (contributor); … - 2008

identify without model assumptions. We develop a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job …-search behavioral outcomes, like the reservation wage, to each other, among newly unemployed workers. Job search theory is used to …

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Counseling and monitoring of unemployed workers : theory and evidence from a controlled social experiment

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2001

analyze these policies in a job search model with two search channels and endogenous search effort. In the empirical analysis … formal job search. We combine our empirical results to the results from our theoretical analysis and the existing empirical …

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Unemployment impact of product and labor market regulation : evidence from European countries

Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - In: IZA journal of labor policy 9 (2019) 1, pp. 1-32

This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labor market regulations on unemployment using data from 24 European countries over the period 1998–2013. Controlling for country fixed effects, endogeneity, and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...

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Swedish youth labour market policies revisited

Forslund, Anders (contributor); … - 2006

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Using internal replication to establish a treatment effect

Johansson, Per-Olov (contributor) - 2006

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Transitional jobs after release from prison : effects on employment and recidivism

Valentine, Erin; Redcross, Cindy - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-17

This paper presents the results of two experimental evaluations of transitional jobs programs for recently released former prisoners: the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) and the Transitional Jobs Reentry Demonstration (TJRD). The analysis assesses the effects of these...

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