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Treatment versus regime effects of carrots and sticks
Arni, Patrick; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lalive, Rafael - 2015
(carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job … seekers. The results show that "carrots" and "sticks" treatments prolong unemployment, but carrots increase earnings whereas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376303
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Treatment versus regime effects of carrots and sticks
Arni, Patrick; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lalive, Rafael - 2017
) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations, employment, and postunemployment … intensive carrots and sticks regimes each reduce unemployment durations, but with carrots regimes this raises earnings whereas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796414
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Long term effects of public policy for displaced workers in Sweden - shipyard workers in the West and miners in the North
Ohlsson, Henry; Storrie, Donald - 2007
shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321623
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Should serverance pay be consistent for all workers? : single, open-ended contracts with sesrverance pay smoothly rising with seniority can decrease both unemployment and job losse...
García Peréz, José Ignacio - 2015
The trend towards labor market flexibility in Europe has typically involved introducing legislation that makes it easier for firms to issue temporary contracts with low firing costs, while not changing the level of protection that is in place for permanent jobs. This has created a strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433382
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Unemployment benefits and job match quality : do unemployment benefits help those seeking work to obtain better jobs?
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2014
Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416465
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Wage insurance as a policy option in the United States
Wandner, Stephen A. - 2016
Wage insurance is a program that attempts to help permanently displaced workers transition to employment rapidly, effectively, and equitably. Because displaced workers have been found to suffer substantial earnings losses when they become reemployed, a wage insurance program provides a temporary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420663
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The Effect of the Hartz Labor Market Reforms on Post-Unemployment Wages, Sorting, and Matching
Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020
We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832592
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The effect of the Hartz labor market reforms on post-unemployment wages, sorting, and matching
Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020
We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228177
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Safety net or helping hand? : the effect of job search assistance and compensation on displaced workers
Fackler, Daniel; Stegmaier, Jens; Upward, Richard - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023
We provide the first systematic evidence on the effectiveness of a contested policy in Germany to help displaced workers. So-called “transfer companies” (Transfergesellschaften) employ displaced workers for a fixed period, during which time workers are provided with job-search assistance and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014336188
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Treatment Versus Regime Effects of Carrots and Sticks
Arni, Patrick - 2015
(carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job … seekers.The results show that "carrots" and "sticks" treatments prolong unemployment, but carrots increase earnings whereas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012807