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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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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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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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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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A survey of inclusive growth policy

Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk; Wood, Jacob - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 3/65, pp. 1-18

Background: Since the latter part of the 20th Century, countries have been particularly challenged by the trade-off that exists between delivering generous welfare provisions and strong economic growth. Such dynamics have stimulated a need to better understand the causes of income inequality so...

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Hanging in, but only just: part-time employment and in-work poverty throughout the crisis

Horemans, Jeroen; Marx, Ive; Nolan, Brian - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 5, pp. 1-19

The crisis has deepened pre-existing concerns regarding low-wage and non-standard employment. Countries where … unemployment increased most strongly during the crisis period also saw part-time employment increasing, particularly involuntary …

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