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Youth unemployment and active labor market policies in Europe
Caliendo, Marco; Schmidl, Ricarda - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 1, pp. 1-30
courses, job search assistance and monitoring, subsidized employment, and public work programs. For policy makers, it is of … job search assistance (with and without monitoring) results in overwhelmingly positive effects, we find more mixed effects …
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Do case workers help the unemployed? : evidence for making a cheap and effective twist to labor market policies for unemployed workers
Rosholm, Michael - 2014
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries spend, on average, an equivalent of 0.4% of their gross domestic product on active and passive labor market policies. This is a non-negligible sum, especially in times of strained government budgets. Meetings with case workers -...
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Changes in labour market transitions in Ireland over the Great Recession: what role for policy?
Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish; McGuinness, Séamus - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 9, pp. 1-18
This paper assesses the impact the Great Recession had on individuals' transitions to and from unemployment in Ireland. The rate of transition from unemployment to employment declined between 2006 and 2011, while the rate from employment to unemployment increased. The results indicate that young...
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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
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 approach to this problem as well as for the European labor policy a …
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The effects of active labour market policies for immigrants receiving social assistance in Denmark
Heinesen, Eskil; Husted, Leif; Rosholm, Michael - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-22
We estimate the effect of active labour-market programmes on the exit rate to regular employment for non-western immigrants in Denmark who receive social assistance. We use the timing-of-events duration model and rich administrative data. We find large positive post-programme effects, and,...
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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 … a single contract, 2014). The objective is to compare the effects of subsidizing permanent job creation with that of … point to fact that subsidizing permanent job creation may not be the best option from a fiscal point of view to reduce …
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Mitigating long-term unemployment in Europe
Miyamoto, Hiroaki; Suphaphiphat, Nujin - In: IZA journal of labor policy 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-27
While unemployment rates in Europe declined after the global financial crisis until 2018/2019, the incidence of long-term unemployment, the share of people who have been unemployed for 1 year to the total unemployed, remained high. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic could aggravate the long-term...
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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
introducing more demanding job search requirements and increased monitoring of the compliance with these requirements, introducing …
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How effective are hiring subsidies in reducing long-term unemployment among prime-aged jobseekers? : evidence from Belgium
Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - In: IZA journal of labor policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-38
effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a triple-difference methodology, the hiring subsidy is shown to increase the job …
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Of carrots and sticks : the effect of workfare announcements on the job search behaviour and reservation wage of welfare recipients
Hohmeyer, Katrin; Wolff, Joachim - In: Journal for labour market research 52 (2018) 11, pp. 1-23
-to-treat effect of receiving a One-Euro-Job announcement on job search behaviour, reservation wage and labour market performance of … welfare recipients. We find that receiving a One-Euro-Job announcement increases job search activities significantly and …
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