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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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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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Reciprocity and the interaction between the unemployed and the caseworker

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Kesternich, Iris; Müller, Gerrit - 2019

We investigate how negatively reciprocal traits of unemployed individuals interact with "sticks" policies imposing constraints on individual job search effort in the context of the German welfare system. For this we merge survey data of long-term unemployed individuals, containing indicators of...

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Reciprocity and the interaction between the unemployed and the caseworker

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Kesternich, Iris; Müller, Gerrit - 2019

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Reciprocity and the interaction between the unemployed and the caseworker

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Kesternich, Iris; Müller, Gerrit - 2020

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The duration of unemployment in Russia

Grogan, Louise Anne; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 1999

This paper uses longitudinal survey data to assess factors affecting the duration of unemployment in Russia. We examine … remarkably similar across the different unemployment definitions and model specifications. Therefore, despite the formidable …

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