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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
, has a number of different goals. On the one hand, One-Euro-Jobs are intended to increase the participants’ employment … short-term employment probability. …
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Can "happiness data" help evaluate economic policies? : "happiness data" may help assess the walfare effects of a new labor market policy, like a change in benefit generosity
Macculoch, Robert - 2016
Imagine a government confronted with a controversial policy question, like whether it should cut the level of unemployment benefits. Will social welfare rise as a result? Will some groups be winners and other groups be losers? Will the welfare gap between the employed and unemployed increase?...
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What factors contributed to changes in employment during and after the Great Recession?
Farooq, Ammar; Kugler, Adriana D. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-28
paper then presents new suggestive evidence to quantify the employment impacts of various counter-cyclical policies … introduced during this time. We conduct a counter-factual and find that employment would have been between 4.2 percent and 4 … Credits increased the likelihood of employment by about 4.7 percent for disconnected youth but had no effect on disabled and …
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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
unemployment benefit eligibility, improving employment services, participation in active labour market policies, monitoring and …
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Unemployment among younger and older individuals: does conventional data about unemployment tell us the whole story?
Axelrad, Hila; Malul, Miki; Luski, Israel - In: Journal for labour market research 52 (2018) 3, pp. 1-12
improve the rate of employment for older individuals. …
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The unemployment invariance hypothesis and the implications of added and discouraged worker effects in Latin America
Maridueña-Larrea, Ángel; Martín-Román, Ángel - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 33 (2024), pp. 1-25
This research explores the long-term equilibrium relationship between unemployment and labour force participation rates for six selected countries in Latin America at both aggregate and gender-disaggregated levels. Cointegration analysis focused on the study of time series is used to validate...
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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
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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Can public works programs mitigate the impact of crises in Europe? : the case of Latvia
Azam, Mehtabul; Ferré, Céline; Ajwad, Mohamed - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-21
To mitigate the impact of the 2008–2010 global financial crisis on vulnerable households, the Government of Latvia established Workplaces with Stipends, an emergency public works program that targeted registered unemployed people who were not receiving unemployment benefits. This paper...
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The impact of monitoring and sanctioning on unemployment exit and job-finding rates : job search monitoring and benefit sanctions generally reduce unemployment duration and boost e...
McVicar, Duncan - 2014
Unemployment benefits often reduce incentives to search for a job. Policymakers have responded to this behaviour by setting minimum job search requirements, by monitoring to check that unemployment benefit recipients are engaged in the appropriate level of job search activity, and by imposing...
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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? : a meta-analysis of the evaluation literature
Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-18
markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Programmes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. So far, however … unemployment: training, job search assistance, wage subsidies and subsidised public sector employment. We find that only wage …
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