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How to minimize lock-in effects of programs for unemployed workers : appopriate timing and targeting of activation programs for the unemployed can help improve their cost-effective...

Wunsch, Conny - 2016

Activation programs, such as job search assistance, training, or work experience programs for unemployed workers, typically initially produce negative employment effects. These so-called “lock-in effects” occur because participants spend less time and effort on job search activities than...

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The locking-in effect of subsidized jobs

Ours, Jan C. van - 2002

Recent evaluations of active labor market policies are not very optimistic about their effectiveness to bring unemployed back to work. An important reason is that unemployed get locked-in, that is they reduce their effort to find a regular job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412050

The impact of active labor market programs and benefit entitlement rules on the duration of unemployment

Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C. van; Zweimüller, Josef - 2000

transition rate to jobs increases for Swiss women but not for Swiss men. However, the job hazard rate is strongly reduced during … durations for women. (ii) Once the unemployment spell approaches the expiration of unconditional benefit entitlement the job …-hazard rate increases strongly, both for women and for men. (iii) There are important selectivity effects for Swiss females, but …

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Do active labor market policies help unemployed workers to find and keep regular jobs?

Ours, Jan C. van - 2000

This paper uses an administrative dataset to analyze to what extent active labor market policies in the Slovak Republic have been beneficial for unemployed workers. The focus is on two types of temporary subsidized jobs and on training. Short-term subsidized jobs seem to be the most efficient...

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Does the recent success of some OECD countries in lowering their unemployment rates lie in the clever design of their labour market reforms?

Belot, Michèle; Ours, Jan C. van - 2000

The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which the unemployment rate decreased a lot. A common...

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The impact of active labor market programs and benefit entitlement rules on the duration of unemployment

Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C. van; Zweimüller, Josef - 2000

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001502477

Do active labor market policies help unemployed workers to find and keep regular jobs?

Ours, Jan C. van - 2000

This paper uses an administrative dataset to analyze what extent active labor market policies in the Slovak Republic have been beneficial for unemployed workers. The focus is on two types of temporary subsidized jobs and on training. Short-term subsidized jobs seem to be the most efficient...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001471760

Does the recent success of some OECD countries in lowering their unemployment rates lie in the clever design of their labour market reforms?

Belot, Michèle; Ours, Jan C. van - 2000

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Labour market policy in Germany : institutions, instruments and reforms since unification

Wunsch, Conny - 2005

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How a mandatory activation program reduces unemployment durations : the effects of distance

Graversen, Brian Krogh; Ours, Jan C. van - 2009

In an experimental setting some Danish unemployed workers were assigned to an activation program while others were not. Unemployed who were assigned to the activation program found a job more quickly. We show that the activation effect increases with the distance between the place of residence...

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