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Effects of active labor market programs on the transition rate from unemployment into regular jobs in the Slovak Republic

Lubyová, Martina; Ours, Jan C. van - 1998

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000997538

Effects of active labor market programs on the transition rate from unemployment into regular jobs in the Slovak Republik

Lubyová, Martina; Ours, Jan C. van - 1998

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001392646

Jobs from active labour market policies and their effects on Slovak unemployment

Lubyová, Martina; Ours, Jan C. van - 1999

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001396916

The locking-in effect of subsidized jobs

Ours, Jan C. van - 2002

Recent evaluations of active labor market policies are not very optimistic about their effectiveness to bring unemployed back to work. An important reason is that unemployed get locked-in, that is they reduce their effort to find a regular job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412050

The impact of active labor market programs and benefit entitlement rules on the duration of unemployment

Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C. van; Zweimüller, Josef - 2000

transition rate to jobs increases for Swiss women but not for Swiss men. However, the job hazard rate is strongly reduced during … durations for women. (ii) Once the unemployment spell approaches the expiration of unconditional benefit entitlement the job …-hazard rate increases strongly, both for women and for men. (iii) There are important selectivity effects for Swiss females, but …

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Do active labor market policies help unemployed workers to find and keep regular jobs?

Ours, Jan C. van - 2000

This paper uses an administrative dataset to analyze to what extent active labor market policies in the Slovak Republic have been beneficial for unemployed workers. The focus is on two types of temporary subsidized jobs and on training. Short-term subsidized jobs seem to be the most efficient...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325998

Does the recent success of some OECD countries in lowering their unemployment rates lie in the clever design of their labour market reforms?

Belot, Michèle; Ours, Jan C. van - 2000

The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which the unemployment rate decreased a lot. A common...

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Carrot and stick : how reemployment bonuses and benefit sanctions affect job finding rates

Klaauw, Bas van der; Ours, Jan C. van - 2010

To increase their transition from welfare to work, benefit recipients in the municipality of Rotterdam were exposed to various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their benefit spell exceeded one year, welfare recipients were entitled to a reemployment bonus if they...

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Do active labor market policies help unemployed workers to find and keep regular jobs?

Ours, Jan C. van (contributor) - 2000 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Subsidized jobs for unemployed workers in Slovakia

Ours, Jan C. van (contributor) - 2000 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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