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Unemployment and Subsequent Employment Stability : Does Labour Market Policy Matter?
Wulfgramm, Melike - 2013
This paper analyses the effect of unemployment insurance generosity and active labour market policy on reemployment stability in Europe. Using EU‐SILC and OECD data, we conduct discrete time survival analyses with shared frailty specification to identify policy effects at the micro and macro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087395
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Experimental Evidence on the Nature of the Danish Employment Miracle
Rosholm, Michael - 2021
This paper uses a social experiment in labour market policy - providing early and intensive monitoring and programme participation in unemployment spells - to assess the nature of labour market policy effectiveness. The experiment was conducted in two counties in Denmark during the winter of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325057
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Did Latvia's Public Works Program Mitigate the Impact of the 2008-2010 Crisis?
Azam, Mehtabul - 2012
dearth of income-generating opportunities in Latvia; thus the program provided temporary employment opportunities and helped …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099794
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A Reappraisal of the Virtues of Private Sector Employment Programmes
Graversen, Brian Krogh; Jensen, Peter - 2021
In this paper, we evaluate the employment effects of Danish active labour market programmes aimed at welfare benefit … information on participation in labour market programmes and subsequent employment. Using a latent variable model, we estimate … mean effects of participation in private sector employment programmes compared to participation in other programmes, but we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317510
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Benefit Duration and Job Search Effort : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Lichter, Andreas - 2016
Findings of prolonged non-employment spells due to more generous unemployment benefits are commonly seen as an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981502
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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives
Brown, Alessio J.G; Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2008
people's employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058461
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Determinants of Immigrants' Cash-Welfare Benefits Intake in Spain
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2012
Much of the literature on immigrants' cash-welfare benefits use has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with well established Welfare states. This paper contributes to this literature by analyzing differences in cash-welfare benefits receipt between immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106292
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Does Leaving Welfare Improve Health? Evidence for Germany
Huber, Martin - 2009
health effects of transitions from welfare to employment and of assignments to welfare-to-work programmes. Applying semi …-parametric propensity score matching estimators we find that employment substantially increases (mental) health. The positive effects are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157019
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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State : The Case of Benefit Morale
Halla, Martin - 2009
Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159750
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The Quasi-Market of Employment Services in Italy
Pastore, Francesco - 2019
employment services: the Lombardy DUL (Dote Unica Lavoro). This system, which has inspired the 2015 national reform within the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861290