courses, job search assistance and monitoring, subsidized employment, and public work programs. For policy makers, it is of … job search assistance (with and without monitoring) results in overwhelmingly positive effects, we find more mixed effects …

courses, job search assistance and monitoring, subsidized employment, and public work programs. For policy makers, it is of … job search assistance (with and without monitoring) results in overwhelmingly positive effects, we find more mixed effects …

This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is … measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … role of job search assistance is to delay or prevent situations in which it is no longer optimal to incentivize the worker …

programs was in place, we find positive effects of both on-the-job and off-the-job training for women, and positive effects of … off-the-job training for men. …

training and job creation schemes on the labour market situation, whereas the results for East Germany do not allow profound …

well-defined group of highly educated job-seekers (unemployed holding a university degree). Our findings suggest, first …

Empirically, not much is known about the mechanisms how labor market programs like job search assistance and training … operate to support finding a job. This paper provides novel evidence to open the "blackbox": it causally links the program … older job seekers, turns out to increase the job finding of participants by 9 percentage points (72% vs. 63% in the control …

This paper uses a large-scale two-level randomized experiment to study direct and displacement effects of job search … displacement leading to higher unemployment for the non-treated. By using detailed information on caseworker and job seeker … behavior we show that vacancy referrals passed on from caseworkers to job seekers is the driving mechanism behind the positive …