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Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or...
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Taking advantage of the ability to identify immigrants who were unauthorized to work prior to obtaining Legal Permanent … employment outcomes of illegal immigrants. With the exception of high-skilled unauthorized immigrants, the data fail to reveal … evidence of improved employment outcomes attributable to legal status. In light of evidence that unauthorized immigrants …
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A Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for newly-arrived immigrants to Sweden was implemented from October 2006 to June …, newly-arrived immigrants were randomly assigned into TIP (treatment) or regular introduction programs (control). Results …
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-western immigrants in Denmark who receive social assistance. We use the timing-of-events duration model and rich administrative data. We … other programmes. The effects are larger if programmes begin after six months of unemployment. Implications of our estimates …
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cause these potential differences. In a first step, we evaluate program effects separately for immigrants and natives using …
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immigrant welfare recipients. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between immigrants and natives and … effects are more adverse for natives, but the program does not help otherwise identical immigrants to leave the welfare system … immigrants. …
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The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its effect on labor market outcomes of two distinct minority...
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but also analyze its effect on post-unemployment wages and job stability for unemployed Danish workers. We find evidence … of large positive treatment effects, particularly for immigrants. There is also some indication that higher treatment … intensity increases the likelihood of leaving unemployment for regular jobs. Our results show that agency employment is even …
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-ployment but also analyze its effect on post-unemployment wages and job stability for unemployed Danish workers. We find evidence … of large positive treatment ef-fects, particularly for immigrants. There is also some indication that higher treatment … intensity increases the likelihood of leaving unemployment for regular jobs. Our re-sults show that agency employment is even …
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In 2002 the Quebec government implemented the Action Emploi (AE) program aimed at making work pay for long-term social assistance recipients (SA). AE offered a generous wage subsidy that could last up to three years to recipients who found a full-time job within twelve months. The program was...
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