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. Considering that one of the main objectives of these reforms was to improve the matching process on the labour market, I use high …-frequency administrative data to present new details regarding the development of job-matching performance from 2000 to 2011. Matching … productivity increased during all reform stages. Increases in matching productivity have become smaller from 2009. The analysis …
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-term unemployment in European countries using a panel of 25 European countries over the period 2000-2018. We find that skill mismatches …, labor market matching efficiency, and labor market policies are associated with the incidence of long-term unemployment …
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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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This paper develops a sufficient-statistic formula for the unemployment gap-the difference between the actual unemployment rate and the efficient unemployment rate. While lowering unemployment puts more people into work, it forces firms to post more vacancies and to devote more resources to...
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Die Hartz-IV-Reform ist politisch stark umstritten. Mit ihr werden Gefährdungen des Lebensstandards bis hin zu Armut verbunden. Gleichzeitig konnte die Bundesrepublik ihre Arbeitslosenquote über die letzten Jahre so stark senken wie fast kein anderes Land in Europa bzw. der OECD. Welche Rolle...
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) matching estimates of Active Labor Market Policies (ALMPs) based on the selection-on-observables assumption are to typically … confounders. However, results also show that matching on the PS using only typically observed covariates reduces imbalance in … matching approach based on rich and high quality administrative data appears to be sufficient to obtain estimates that are …
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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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