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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550835
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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 … claimants have the opportunity to withdraw from the UI scheme, their long-run utility can even be lower than in the absence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010636594
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Work Incentives? Ex Post Effects of Unemployment Insurance Sanctions - Evidence from West Germany
Hofmann, Barbara - CESifo - 2008
Unemployment insurance (UI) sanctions in the form of benefit reductions are intended to set disincentives for UI … recipients to stay unemployed. Empirical evidence about the effects of UI sanctions in Germany is sparse. Using administrative … data we investigate the effects of sanctions on the reemployment probability in West Germany for individuals who entered UI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005416454
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Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies: The Role of Job Search Assistance
Wunsch, Conny - CESifo - 2009
based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation … duration dependence in the exit rates to employment and potential depreciation in reemployment wages. We show that the main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572514
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The Threat of Monitoring Job Search. A Discontinuity Design
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - CESifo - 2010
Since July 2004 the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants is monitored in Belgium. We exploit the discontinuity in the treatment assignment at the age of 30 to evaluate the effect of a notification sent at least 8 months before job search is verified. The threat of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799748
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Do Firms Benefit from Active Labour Market Policies?
Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny; Scioch, Patrycja - CESifo - 2013
This paper investigates the link between variation in the supply of workers who participate in specific types of active labour market policies (ALMPs) and firm performance using a new exceptionally informative German employer-employee data base. For identification we exploit that German local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693477
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534054
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979397
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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State: the Case of Benefit Morale
Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2009
Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say’s law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051503
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The Effect of Extending the Duration of Eligibility in an Italian Labour Market Programme for Dismissed Workers
Paggiaro, Adriano; Rettore, Enrico; Trivellato, Ugo - CESifo - 2008
providing an employment subsidy to any firm hiring workers from the LM. Eligibility duration varies with the worker’s age at … dismissal. We exploit the variability of these provisions to evaluate the impact of extending the duration of eligibility on re …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181461