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Impact of welfare sanctions on employment entry and exit from labor force : evidence from German survey data
Hillmann, Katja; Hohenleitner, Ingrid - 2015
Similar to numerous other European countries, Germany's unemployment policy went through a paradigm shift in 2005, towards activation policy by tightening their monitoring and sanction regime. With our study, we aim to provide causal evidence for whether an intended positive effect of benefit...
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The impact of monitoring and sanctioning on unemployment exit and job-finding rates : job search monitoring and benefit sanctions generally reduce unemployment duration and boost e...
McVicar, Duncan - 2014
search monitoring and benefit sanctions reduce unemployment duration and increase job entry in the short term. There is some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417039
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Structurally dependent competing risks
Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2001
In this paper, we specify and estimate a structurally dependent competing risks model for the transitions out of unemployment into either new job or recall. The recall probability is allowed to affect the search intensity for new jobs.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001595480
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Structurally dependent competing risks
Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2001
In this paper, we specify and estimate a structurally dependent competing risks model for the transitions out of unemployment into either new job or recall. The recall probability is allowed to affect the search intensity for new jobs.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400768
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Stepping-stones for the unemployed : the effect of temporary jobs on the duration until regular work
Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Heyma, … - 2004
-state duration model, applying the timing of events approach. To deal with selectivity, the model incorporates transitions from … unambiguously show that temporary jobs serve as stepping-stones towards regular employment. They shorten the duration of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575181
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How long and how much? : learning about the design of wage subsidies from policy discontinuities
Sjögren, Anna; Vikström, Johan - 2013
-policy allow us to study effects of both subsidy rate and subsidy duration. We find that doubling of the subsidy rate has a … substantial impact on job finding rates but that doubled subsidy duration has no such effect. We find the opposite pattern when we … positive employment effect of doubling the subsidy duration persists after the expiry of the employment subsidies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009790111
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A theoretical rationale for flexicurity policies based on education
Davoine, Thomas - 2015
The paper provides a theoretical rationale for flexicurity policies, which consist of low employment protection, generous unemployment insurance and active labor market programmes. It analyzes in which conditions flexicurity can be optimal. Low employment protection encourages costly education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500612
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Unemployment Duration and the Interactions between Unemployment Insurance and Social Assistance
Pellizzari, Michele - 2005
or the duration of benefits should reduce unemployment. Despite the large number of such reforms implemented in Europe in …The existing studies of unemployment benefit and unemployment duration suggest that reforms that lower either the level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014068269
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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches
Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019
This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110312
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True and false remedies for long time unemployment in Visegrad countries
Scharle, Ágota - 2014
Two in ten working age adults have been out of work for over a year in Visegrad economies and long term joblessness is especially high among the uneducated. The employment disadvantage of uneducated workers tends to be larger than in Western European countries, and is especially grievous in...
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