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Can "happiness data" help evaluate economic policies? : "happiness data" may help assess the walfare effects of a new labor market policy, like a change in benefit generosity

Macculoch, Robert - 2016

Imagine a government confronted with a controversial policy question, like whether it should cut the level of unemployment benefits. Will social welfare rise as a result? Will some groups be winners and other groups be losers? Will the welfare gap between the employed and unemployed increase?...

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Unemployment among younger and older individuals: does conventional data about unemployment tell us the whole story?

Axelrad, Hila; Malul, Miki; Luski, Israel - In: Journal for labour market research 52 (2018) 3, pp. 1-12

improve the rate of employment for older individuals. …

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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

paper then presents new suggestive evidence to quantify the employment impacts of various counter-cyclical policies … introduced during this time. We conduct a counter-factual and find that employment would have been between 4.2 percent and 4 … Credits increased the likelihood of employment by about 4.7 percent for disconnected youth but had no effect on disabled and …

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Activation programs for unemployment benefit recipients in Slovenia

Laporšek, Suzana; Vodopivec, Milan; Vodopivec, Matija - In: Národohospodářský obzor : časopis věnovaný … 22 (2022) 2, pp. 75-95

unemployment benefit eligibility, improving employment services, participation in active labour market policies, monitoring and …

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Long-term unemployment and the capability approach : the case of the German labor market

Olejniczak, Michael - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 23 (2012) 2, pp. 140-157

This text focuses on long-term unemployment in the German labor market caused by insufficient work skills capabilities and discusses the deficits of the current policy in improving the situation of job seekers who are repeatedly rejected in their efforts to find a job. For both the German...

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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

Unemployment benefits often reduce incentives to search for a job. Policymakers have responded to this behaviour by setting minimum job search requirements, by monitoring to check that unemployment benefit recipients are engaged in the appropriate level of job search activity, and by imposing...

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Hanging in, but only just: part-time employment and in-work poverty throughout the crisis

Horemans, Jeroen; Marx, Ive; Nolan, Brian - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 5, pp. 1-19

The crisis has deepened pre-existing concerns regarding low-wage and non-standard employment. Countries where … unemployment increased most strongly during the crisis period also saw part-time employment increasing, particularly involuntary …

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Hartz IV : starker Rückgang der Arbeitslosen, aber nicht der Hilfebedürftigen

Brenke, Karl - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 85 (2018) 34, pp. 717-729

Die Zahl der Arbeitslosen, die Hartz IV beziehen, ist in den vergangenen zehn Jahren deutlich gesunken – und zwar stärker als die Arbeitslosigkeit generell. Obwohl ein großer Teil davon – inzwischen fast zwei Drittel – nicht über eine Berufsausbildung verfügt, haben vor allem wegen der...

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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? : a meta-analysis of the evaluation literature

Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-18

markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Programmes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. So far, however … unemployment: training, job search assistance, wage subsidies and subsidised public sector employment. We find that only wage …

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Linking information on unemployment benefit sanctions from different datasets about welfare receipt : proceedings and research potential

Schmidtke, Julia - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-19

. This paper analyzes how using a dataset from the operational system of the German Federal Employment Agency for processing … leaving the welfare system between sanction events and sanction periods, e.g., by taking up employment. Third, the paper shows …

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