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Money Matters - Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment with Vouchers for Adult Training

Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - CESifo - 2009

This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 2006, 2,400 people were issued with a training voucher which they were entitled to use in payment for a training course of their choice. User behavior was compared with a control group...

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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle

Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger; Zhang, Lei - CESifo - 2011

Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...

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Effects of Adult Education Vouchers on the Labor Market: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - CESifo - 2011

Lifelong learning is often promoted in ageing societies, but little is known about its returns or governments’ ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult education in Switzerland. We find no significant...

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Social Interaction and Sickness Absence

Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Marten; Persson, Mats - CESifo - 2008

Does the average level of sickness absence in a neighborhood affect individual sickness absence through social interaction on the neighborhood level? To answer this question, we consider evidence of local benefit-dependency cultures. Well-known methodological problems in this type of analysis...

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A Continuous Theory of Income Insurance

Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - CESifo - 2010

In this paper we treat an individual’s health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on income insurance, where it is regularly treated as a binary variable. This is not a minor technical matter; in fact, a continuous treatment of an individual’s health sheds new...

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Workfare, Monitoring, and Efficiency Wages

Holzner, Christian; Meier, Volker; Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2006

model where a representative firm chooses its level of monitoring activities. A stricter workfare policy raises employment … and monitoring activities. It typically increases profits and reduces the tax rate. The impact on the net wage isambiguous …

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Optimal Unemployment Insurance Design: Time Limits, Monitoring, or Workfare?

Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - CESifo - 2003

of improving the efficiency of UI: the duration of benefit payments, monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and … monitoring and sanctions restores search incentives most effectively, since it brings additional incentives to search actively so … monitoring and sanctions than in the other two systems. Workfare appears to be inferior to the other two systems. …

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Optimal Redistribution and Monitoring of Labor Effort

Zoutman, Floris; Jacobs, Bas - CESifo - 2014

This paper extends the Mirrlees (1971) model of optimal non-linear income taxation with a monitoring technology that … the joint determination of the non-linear monitoring and tax schedules and the conditions under which these can be … implemented. Monitoring of labor effort reduces the distortions created by income taxation and raises optimal marginal tax rates …

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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

unemployed to front-load search effort prior to monitoring. This causes the job finding rate to increase above the post sanction …

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Black Sheep or Scapegoats? Implementable Monitoring Policies under Unobservable Levels of Misbehavior

Buechel, Berno; Mühlheusser, Gerd - CESifo - 2014

An authority delegates a monitoring task to an agent. It can only observe the number of detected offenders, but neither … the monitoring intensity chosen by the agent nor the resulting level of misbehavior. We provide a necessary and sufficient … condition for the implementability of monitoring policies. Typically, several monitoring intensities give rise to the same …

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