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Fiscal Multipliers in a Two-Sector Search and Matching Model
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos - 2015
business cycle model with search and matching frictions. We extend the canonical model by including capital … types. We first find that, the model does a good job at matching the cyclical properties of sectoral employment and the wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028533
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Die Arbeitslosenversicherung in Deutschland – Beitrag zur Bekämpfung oder Ursache von Arbeitslosigkeit
Breiding, Torsten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
der Probleme auf dem Arbeitsmarkt zu sein. Um Deutschland wettbewerbsfähig zu halten, versuchen die politischen … schaffen. Doch wie effizient sind diese Reformen und wie wirken sie auf den Arbeitsmarkt? Welche Rolle spielen dabei die … auf dem Arbeitsmarkt sollen die Wirkungen der Arbeitslosenversicherung kausal darstellen. Konjunkturbedingte Veränderungen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008622251
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Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies : The Role of Job Search Assistance
Wunsch, Conny - 2010
This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation measures such as monitoring and job search assistance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149361
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Quick Job Entry or Long-Term Human Capital Devlopment? The Dynamic Effects of Alternative Training Schemes
Osikominu, Aderonke - 2012
This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human capital intensive training programs work. We evaluate and compare their effects on time until job entry, stability of employment, and earnings. Further, we examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105144
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Contracting Out Mandatory Counselling and Training for Long-Term Unemployed. Private For-Profit or Non-Profit, or Keep it Public?
Cockx, Bart - 2015
This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010905
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Screening Through Activation : Differential Effects of a Youth Activation Programme
Hall, Caroline - 2017
We study the dual role of active labour market policies: First, ALMP may perform a screening role by increasing job-finding rates among individuals with good labour market prospects, already prior to programme participation. Second, actual program participation may help individuals with poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962918
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The Threat of Monitoring Job Search. A Discontinuity Design
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - CESifo - 2010
Since July 2004 the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants is monitored in Belgium. We exploit the discontinuity in the treatment assignment at the age of 30 to evaluate the effect of a notification sent at least 8 months before job search is verified. The threat of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799748
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The Threat of Monitoring Job Search : A Discontinuity Design
Cockx, Bart - 2010
Since July 2004 the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants is monitored in Belgium. We exploit the discontinuity in the treatment assignment at the age of 30 to evaluate the effect of a notification sent at least 8 months before job search is verified. The threat of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135453
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Sensitivity of Matching-Based Program Evaluations to the Availability of Control Variables
Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2021
the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching estimation leads to biased impact estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316049
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Estimating Equilibrium Effects of Job Search Assistance
Gautier, Pieter A. - 2015
Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there are no spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that this assumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers. Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...
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