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Sensitivity of Matching-Based Program Evaluations to the Availability of Control Variables

Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - CESifo - 2011

Based on new, exceptionally informative and large German linked employer-employee administrative data, we investigate the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching estimation leads to biased impact estimates of typical active labour market programs for the...

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Quick Job Entry or Long-Term Human Capital Development? The Dynamic Effects of Alternative Training Schemes

Osikominu, Aderonke - CESifo - 2012

This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human … capital intensive training programs work. We evaluate and compare their effects on time until job entry, stability of … employment, and earnings. Further, we examine the heterogeneity of treatment effects according to the timing of training during …

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Labor Demand During the Crisis: What Happened in Germany?

Bohachova, Olga; Boockmann, Bernhard; Buch, Claudia M. - CESifo - 2011

In Germany, the employment response to the post-2007 crisis has been muted compared to other industrialized countries. Despite a large drop in output, employment has hardly changed. In this paper, we analyze the determinants of German firms’ labor demand during the crisis using a firm-level...

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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

This paper develops a partial equilibrium job search model to study the behavioral and welfare implications of an Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We show that, if the search requirements are well...

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Vacancy Referrals, Job Search, and the Duration of Unemployment: A Randomized Experiment

Engström, Per; Hesselius, Patrik; Holmlund, Bertil - CESifo - 2009

One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies; another goal is to monitor job search so as to bring search efforts among the unemployed in line with search requirements. The referral of job seekers to vacancies is one...

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Tax Effects, Search Unemployment, and the Choice of Educational Type

Alstadsæter, Annette; Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - CESifo - 2005

This paper examines the effect of taxes on the individuals’ choices of educational direction, and thus on the economy’s skill composition. A proportional labour income tax induces too many workers with high innate ability to choose an educational type with high consumption value and low...

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Labor Market Policy: A Comparative View on the Costs and Benefits of Labor Market Flexibility

Kahn, Lawrence - CESifo - 2010

I review theories and evidence on labor market policies and institutions in an international context. These include collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and active labor market policies. Scandinavia and Central...

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The Employment Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies

Huttunen, Kristiina; Pirttilä, Jukka; Uusitalo, Roope - CESifo - 2010

Low-wage subsidies are often proposed as a solution to the unemployment problem among the low skilled. Yet the empirical evidence on the effects of low-wage subsidies is surprisingly scarce. This paper examines the employment effects of a Finnish payroll tax subsidy scheme, which is targeted at...

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Reduction of Employment Protection in Europe: A Comparative Fuzzy-Set Analysis

Ochel, Wolfgang; Rohwer, Anja - CESifo - 2009

Since the middle of the 1980s many European countries have reduced the strictness of their employment protection mainly by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the...

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Flexicurity in Belgium. A Proposal Based on Economic Principles

Cockx, Bart; Linden, Bruno Van der - CESifo - 2009

The current unemployment insurance and employment protection legislation were set up in an environment in which relationships between workers and firms were typically long-lasting and stable. The increasing globalisation of the economy and the rapid technological and organisational changes...

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