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Scarring Effects of Remaining Unemployed for Long-Term Unemployed School-Leavers
Cockx, Bart; Picchio, Matteo - CESifo - 2011
This study investigates whether and to what extent further unemployment experience for youths who are already long … aside of transitions from unemployment and employment within a multivariate duration model that controls for selection on … observables and unobservables. We find that prolonging unemployment drastically decreases the chances of finding employment, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293491
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Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Launov, Andrey; Van der … - Volkswirtschaftslehre-Lehrstühle, Gutenberg School of … - 2011
We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate a scheme that monitors job search effort and sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the unemployed to front-load search effort prior to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386039
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Overeducation at the Start of the Career - Stepping Stone or Trap?
Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Verhaest, Dieter - CESifo - 2012
especially important early in the unemployment spell. Our results are robust across various specifications and for two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550834
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Monitoring Job Search Effort with Hyperbolic Time Preferences and Non-Compliance: A Welfare Analysis
Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna; Linden, Bruno Van der - CESifo - 2013
Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010636594
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Are Short-Lived Jobs Stepping Stones to Long-Lasting Jobs?
Cockx, Bart; Picchio, Matteo - CESifo - 2009
This paper assesses whether short-lived jobs (lasting one quarter or less and involuntarily ending in unemployment) are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051584
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Income Support Policies for Part-Time Workers: A Stepping-Stone to Regular Jobs? An Application to Young Long-Term Unemployed Women in Belgium
Cockx, Bart; Robin, Stéphane; Goebel, Christian - CESifo - 2006
We verify whether an income support policy for part-time workers in Belgium increases the transition from unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181500
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The Threat of Monitoring Job Search. A Discontinuity Design
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - CESifo - 2010
more heterogeneous. Moreover, in this region, the threat induces women to substitute sickness for unemployment benefits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799748
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Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Launov, Andrey; Linden, … - CESifo - 2011
We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate a scheme that monitors job search effort and sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the unemployed to front-load search effort prior to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371346