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Can subsidized employment tackle long-term unemployment? : experimental evidence from North Macedonia

Armand, Alex; Carneiro, Pedro; Tagliati, Federico; Xia, … - 2020

This paper examines the impact of an experiment in North Macedonia in which vulnerable unemployed individuals applying to a subsidized employment program were randomly selected to attend job interviews. Employers hiring a new employee from the target population receive a subsidy covering the...

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Decomposing a matching estimation : correlated unobserved non-random selection, substitution, and causal effects in a large scale ALMP Program in Germany ; conference paper

Brändle, Tobias; Fervers, Lukas; Webel, Carina - 2014 - Preliminary version

We analyse the treatment effects of a large scale German active labour market program. Modellprojekte Bürgerarbeit is a modified public employment scheme, with an activation period as a first step. Using data from individual employment records we perform matching estimations to analyse the...

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What shifts did COVID-19 year 2020 bring to the labour market in Europe?

Baert, Stijn - 2021

policy-oriented studies have dealt with the evolution of unemployment in 2020, often country by country, this letter focuses … on the evolution of unemployment as well as inactivity across European countries. Indeed, previous crises have typically … lead not only to more unemployment but also to larger numbers of discouraged unemployed and thus more inactivity. It …

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Active labour market policies : what works for the long-term unemployed?

Eppel, Rainer; Huemer, Ulrike; Mahringer, Helmut; … - 2024

There is still a lack of knowledge on how to effectively help the long-term unemployed into employment. We evaluate a wide range of active labour market policies for this target group, using a dynamic matching approach. Measures vary considerably in the extent to which they improve labour market...

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Employment subsidies and job insertion of higher education graduates in the labor market

Khayati, Anis; Hani, Umme; Alam, Shabbir; Sha, Nadia; … - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 11, pp. 1-13

This paper uses data from the 24 governorates in Tunisia over the period 2012-2020 to study the relationship between job insertion of higher education graduates into the formal labor market and a number of independent variables, namely active labor supply, labor demand, an active labor market...

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Activation and active labour market policies in OECD countries : stylized facts and evidence on their effectiveness

Martin, John P. - 2014

impact of ALMPs on employment and unemployment rates. This is followed by a review of the key lessons from recent OECD …

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Activation and active labour market policies in OECD countries : stylised facts and evidence on their effectiveness

Martin, John P. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-29

evidence on the impact of ALMPs on employment and unemployment rates. This is followed by a review of the key lessons from …

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Whither activation policies? : reflections for the future

Martin, John P. - 2016

Activation policies aimed at getting working-age people off benefits and into work have been embraced by many OECD countries. In a previous paper, I have argued that activation strategies have performed well during the Great Recession and subsequent recovery in some, but not all, of these...

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Do early active labor market policies improve outcomes of not-yet-unemployed workers? : findings from a randomized field experiment

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Stephan, Gesine; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2025

consider individuals up to three months before the envisaged termination of their employment and we study effects of pre-unemployment …-to-be unemployed. This is driven by workers with a relatively high unemployment risk following registration. Thus, the policies …

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Policies for young adults with reduced work capacity : labour market impact in Sweden and Norway

Hall, Caroline King Barnard; Hardoy, Inés; Simson, … - 2022

. We follow these individuals up to four years after the start of unemployment. Our results indicate that, in spite of …

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