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Reform of unemployment compensation in Germany: A nonparametric bounds analysis using register data
Lee, Sokbae; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005
duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s … unemployment is not directly observed. For this reason we bound the reform effect on unemployment duration over different … parametric model assumptions. We identify a systematic increase in unemployment duration in response to the reform in samples …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318489
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Reform of Unemployment Compensation in Germany : A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis Using Register Data
Lee, Sokbae; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2008
duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s … unemployment is not directly observed. For this reason we bound the reform effect on unemployment duration over different … parametric model assumptions. We identify a systematic increase in unemployment duration in response to the reform in samples …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014065309
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Direct and indirect effects of training vouchers for the unemployed
Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Strittmatter, Anthony - 2015
This paper evaluates the effect of a voucher award system for assignment into vocational training on the employment outcomes of unemployed voucher recipients in Germany, along with the causal mechanisms through which it operates. It assesses the direct effect of voucher assignment net of actual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288531
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Direct and Indirect Effects of Training Vouchers for the Unemployed
Huber, Martin - 2015
This paper evaluates the effect of a voucher award system for assignment into vocational training on the employment outcomes of unemployed voucher recipients in Germany, along with the causal mechanisms through which it operates. It assesses the direct effect of voucher assignment net of actual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016357
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Reform of Unemployment Compensation in Germany: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis Using Register Data
Lee, Sokbae; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005
duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s … unemployment is not directly observed. For this reason we bound the reform effect on unemployment duration over different … parametric model assumptions. We identify a systematic increase in unemployment duration in response to the reform in samples …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297436
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Microeconometric evaluation of the active labour market policy in Switzerland
Gerfin, Michael; Lechner, Michael - 2000
In the second part of the 1990's Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a wide variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of these programmes on the individual employment probability of potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333282
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Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland
Lechner, Michael; Gerfin, Michael - 2021
Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland In the second part of the 1990?s Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a wide variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of these programmes on the individual employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321284
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Unemployment Duration in Germany : Individual and Regional Determinants of Local Job Finding, Migration and Subsidized Employment
Arntz, Melanie - 2018
Recent labor market reforms in Germany aim, among other things, at reducing unemployment by restricting passive unemployment measures, emphasizing local labor market policies and re-structuring public employment services. This paper uses extensive individual administrative and regional aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012706535
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Reduction in the Long-Term Unemployment of the Elderly: A Success Story from Finland
Kyyrä, Tomi; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2004
after the reform. In the duration analysis a flexible treatment design is adopted by allowing for quantile treatment effects …. We apply three different non- and semiparametric methods, which all produce robust and coherent results. Since the reform … due to the reform. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297387
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Estimating the latent effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment duration
Lo, Simon M. S.; Stephan, Gesine; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2012
We estimate the effect of a shortening of unemployment benefit entitlements on unemployment duration. Previous studies on the same or related problems have not taken into account that the competing risks duration model is not identified and we shed first light on the question whether the non...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009550688