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Unhappiness and Job Finding
Gielen, Anne C. - 2016
It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at the same time active labor market policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work more quickly. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigate whether there is indeed such a puzzle. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013008140
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Unhappiness and Job Finding
Gielen, Anne C.; van Ours, Jan C. - 2012
It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at the same time active labor market policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work more quickly. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigate whether there is indeed such a puzzle. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014173536
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Unhappiness and Job Finding
Gielen, Anne C. - 2012
It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at the same time active labor market policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work more quickly. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigate whether there is indeed such a puzzle. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110860
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Under heavy pressure : intense monitoring and accumulation of sanctions for young welfare recipients in Germany
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2017
With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for welfare recipients aged younger than 25 years. For all types of non-compliance except for missing appointments, their basic cash benefit is withdrawn for three months. A second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641799
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Predicting re-employment : machine learning versus assessments by unemployed workers and by their caseworkers
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Kunaschk, Max; Lang, Julia; … - 2023
policy mix of unemployment insurance agencies. We analyze unique data on three sources of information on the probability of … re-employment within 6 months (RE6), for the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014338662
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415082
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496735
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Job displacement and first birth over the business cycle
Hofmann, Barbara; Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2017
This paper investigates the impact of job displacement on women's first birth rates, and the variation in this effect over the business cycle. We used mass layoffs to estimate the causal effects of involuntary job loss on fertility in the short and medium term, up to five years after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596874
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Predicting re-employment : machine learning versus assessments by unemployed workers and by their caseworkers
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Kunaschk, Max; Lang, Julia; … - 2023
the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were asked for their perceived probability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014438589
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528180