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The Aggregate Labor Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program

Albrecht, James; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vroman, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of lowskill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...

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A cross-country comparison of labor market frictions

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

we examine the policy effects of the minimum wage, unemployment benefits and search frictions. …

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Stepping-stones for the unemployed : the effect of temporary jobs on the duration until regular work

Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Heyma, … - 2004

Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from … unemployment to temporary jobs and unobserved determinants of the transition rates. The data contain multiple spells in labour … unemployment and they substantially increase the fraction of unemployed workers who have regular work within a few years after …

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Mobility assistance programmes for unemployed workers, job search behaviour and labour market outcomes

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Mahlstedt, Robert - 2017

reducing unemployment leads to industrialised countries offering financial support to unemployed job seekers when searching for … and/or accepting jobs in distant regions. In this paper, we investigate the impact of the existence of these mobility … radius causes a higher geographical mobility and hence higher employment probabilities and wages. …

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Job Search, Locus of Control, and Internal Migration

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hennecke, Juliane - 2015

Internal migration can substantially improve labor market efficiency. Consequently, policy is often targeted towards reducing the barriers workers face in moving to new labor markets. In this paper we explicitly model internal migration as the result of a job search process and demonstrate that...

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Job search, locus of control, and internal migration

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hennecke, Juliane - 2015

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Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers: a randomized controlled field experiment in Germany

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Stephan, Gesine - 2021

In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment …

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Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers: a randomized controlled field experiment in Germany

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Stephan, Gesine - 2021

Integration Agreement (IA) are contracts between the employment agency and the unemployed, nudging the latter to comply with rules on search behavior. We designed and implemented an RCT involving thousands of newly unemployed workers, randomizing at the individual level both the timing of the IA...

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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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Earnings exemptions for unemployed workers : the relationship between marginal employment, unemployment duration and job quality

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016

analyze the unemployment dynamics of job seekers with and without marginal employment, we consider an inflow sample into … unemployment and estimate multivariate duration models. While we do not find any significant impact on the job finding probability … probability of marginal employment at the beginning of the unemployment spell and an increased job finding probability for the …

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