This article investigates whether income support for low-paid part-time workers in Belgium increases the transition from unemployment to non-subsidised, ‘regular’ employment. Our analysis uses a sample of long-term unemployed young women. Observing their labour market histories from 1998 to...

Many school-leavers enter the labour market via temporary employment. In this paper we investigate the impact of a temporary employment spell at the start of the career on the transition rate into permanent employment. We compare the case of temporary employment to the hypothetical case of a...

We verify whether an income support policy for part-time workers in Belgium increases the transition from unemployment to non-subsidised, "regular" employment. Using a sample of 8630 long-term unemployed young women, whose labour market history is observed from 1998 to 2001, we implement the...

We verify whether an income support policy for part-time workers in Belgium increases the transition from unemployment to non-subsidised, “regular” employment. Using a sample of 8630 long-term unemployed young women, whose labour market history is observed from 1998 to 2001, we implement the...

We evaluate the effect of an income support policy (subsidized employment) on the transition to non-subsidized employment in Belgium. To do so, we estimate a bivariate Mixed Proportional Hazard model on a panel of 8 630 unemployed women without labour market experience. Our results show that the...