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Crépon, Bruno; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2016

Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have been published. In this review, we critically assess policy effectiveness. We emphasize insights from recent randomized...

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Active labor market policies

Crépon, Bruno; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2016

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How Effective are Hiring Subsidies to Reduce Long-Term Unemployment Among Prime-Aged Jobseekers? Evidence from Belgium

Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - 2022

Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a...

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What factors contributed to changes in employment during and after the Great Recession?

Farooq, Ammar; Kugler, Adriana D. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-28

Unemployment increased drastically over the course of the Great Recession from 4.5 percent prior to the recession to 10 … percent at its peak in October 2009. Since then, the unemployment rate has come down steadily, and it stood at 5.8 percent in … November 2014. Based on existing analyses and some new evidence, this paper establishes that much of the change in unemployment …

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How Effective are Hiring Subsidies to Reduce Long-Term Unemployment Among Prime-Aged Jobseekers? Evidence from Belgium

Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - 2021

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Income support, (un-)employment and well-being

Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; Wolf, Tobias - 2016

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …

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Income support, (un-)employment and well-being

Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; Wolf, Tobias - 2016

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …

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Reducing severance costs or subsidizing permanent job creation : which policy is more effective to reduce duality?

Osuna, Victoria - 2015

This paper introduces endogenous on-the-job training in the job creation and destruction model of the search and matching type by García-Pérez and Osuna (Dual labour markets and the tenure distribution: Reducing severance pay or introducing a single contract, 2014). The objective is to compare...

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Geringfügige Beschäftigung - Sprungbrett oder Sackgasse?

Steiner, Viktor - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 14, pp. 166-167

Geringfügige subventionierte Beschäftigung wird von ihren Kritikern eher als Sackgasse denn als Sprungbrett in reguläre Beschäftigung angesehen. In einer neueren Studie des DIW Berlin wurden auch die längerfristigen Effekte der Aufnahme einer geringfügigen subventionierten Beschäftigung...

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Do Hiring Subsidies Reduce Unemployment Among the Elderly? Evidence from Two Natural Experiments

Boockmann, Bernhard; Ammermüller, Andreas; Zwick, Thomas; … - 2008

We estimate the effects of hiring subsidies for older workers on transitions from unemployment to employment in Germany …

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