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workers by proposing them retraining and job seeking assistance for a period of six months beginning just after the dismissal …
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which provides the date when job seekers receive information from caseworkers about their future treatment status. We find …
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workers by proposing them retraining and job seeking assistance for a period of six months beginning just after the dismissal …
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) impacts of job placement assistance on the labor market outcomes of young, educated job seekers in France. We use a two …-step design. In the first step, the proportions of job seekers to be assigned to treatment (0%, 25%, 50%, 75% or 100%) were …, eligible job seekers were randomly assigned to the treatment, following this proportion. After eight months, eligible …
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, going through many spells of unemployment and fixed duration jobs, before obtaining a regular job. Looking at French data …
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The trend towards activation has been one of the major issues in recent welfare and labour market reforms in Europe and the US. Despite considerable initial variation across national models with respect to the scope and intensity of activation, redefining the link between social protection and...
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France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be observed in Southern European countries, a "lost generation" may arise in France. In stark contrast, youth unemployment has been on continuous decline in Germany for many years,...
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Although widely regarded as a textbook case of a rigid economy, in the late 1990s France was able to increase employment by 10 per cent within five years and to cut down unemployment by more than a fourth. This paper investigates what factors may account for this surprising performance. The...
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