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Can hiring subsidies benefit the unemployed? : hiring subsidies can be a very cost-effective way of helping the unemployed, but only when they are carefully targeted

Brown, Alessio J. G. - 2015

Long-term unemployment can lead to skill attrition and have detrimental effects on future employment prospects, particularly following periods of economic crises when employment growth is slow and cannot accommodate high levels of unemployment. Addressing this problem requires the use of active...

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Hiring subsidies for low-educated unemployed youths are ineffective in a tight labor market

Dejemeppe, Muriel; Delpierre, Matthieu; Pourtois, Mathilde - 2024

We evaluate the impact of hiring subsidies for unemployed jobseekers in Wallonia, the Frenchspeaking region in the south of Belgium. The special feature of these subsidies is that they are more readily available for low-educated youths, who are eligible from registration as a jobseeker or a few...

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Mom's out : employment after childbirth and firm-level responses

Carta, Francesca; Casarico, Alessandra; De Philippis, Marta - 2024

This paper explores how firms respond to the exit of mothers from the labour market after childbirth. As an exogenous shifter in mothers' quits, we use a policy reform that extended the potential duration of unemployment benefits, which Italian mothers can receive also upon resigning within 12...

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Evaluating the employment impact of a mandatory job search assistance program

Blundell, Richard; Costa Dias, Monica; Meghir, Costas; … - 2001

difference in differences and matching procedures. Our key finding is that unemployed men are now 20% more likely to gain jobs …

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Active labor market programs : employment gain or fiscal drain?

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Koettl, Johannes - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-36

enhancement and improved labor market matching. Reviewing evidence from the literature, we discuss especially indirect effects of …

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Reducing Income Transfers to Refugee Immigrants : Does Starthelp Help You Start?

Rosholm, Michael - 2007

In this paper we estimate the causal effect of lowering the public income transfers administered to newly arrived refugee immigrants in Denmark - the so-called starthelp - using a competing risk mixed proportional hazard framework. The two competing risks are exit to job and exit out of the...

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Lohndispersion und Arbeitslosigkeit: Neuere Ansätze in der Suchtheorie

Garloff, Alfred - 2003

Arbeitspapier neuere Entwicklungen innerhalb eines Zweiges informationsökonomischer Ansätze vorgestellt: der Suchtheorie. Dabei … führt, im Kontext der Suchtheorie valide ist. Auf dem Weg hin zu einer empirisch gültigen Theorie des Arbeitsmarktes stellt …

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Mismatch, Sorting and Wage Dynamics

Lise, Jeremy - 2013

We develop an empirical search-matching model which is suitable for analyzing the wage, employment and welfare impact … wage determination and employment which extends the current literature on equilibrium wage determination with matching and … of assortative matching between workers and jobs due to complementarities between worker and job characteristics. We use …

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Endogenous skilled-biased technological change and matching unemployment

Stadler, Manfred; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2001

This paper presents a general-equilibrium model of endogenous skilled-biased technological change and matching …

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Trade in tasks : revisiting the wage and employment effects of offshoring

Kohler, Wilhelm; Wrona, Jens - 2019

frictional labor market with equilibrium unemployment due to costly matching, we demonstrate that under these same conditions …

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