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Fighting Youth Unemployment:The Effects of Active Labor Market Policies
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Schmidl, Ricarda - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
the aims of these programs are clear – a fast reintegrationinto employment or enrollment in further education – a … availability ofprograms. Our results indicate positive long-term employment effects for nearly all measuresaimed at labor market … beharmful for the medium-term employment prospects and ineffective in the long-run. Ouranalysis further indicates that the …
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A Caseworker Like Me : Does the Similarity between Unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?
Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their caseworkers, we find positive employment effects of about 4 percentage points …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860224
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Too Bad to Benefit? Effect Heterogeneity ofPublic Training Programs
Rinne, Ulf; Schneider, Marc; Uhlendorff, Arne - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This study analyzes the treatment effects of public training programs for the unemployed inGermany. Based on propensity score matching methods we extend the picture that has beensketched in previous studies by estimating treatment effects of medium-term programs fordifferent sub-groups with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860773
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A Statistical Programme Assignment Model
Staghøj, Jonas; Svarer, Michael; Rosholm, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
When treatment effects of active labour market programmes are heterogeneous in anobservable way across the population, the allocation of the unemployed into differentprogrammes becomes a particularly important issue. In this paper, we present a statisticalmodel designed to improve the present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861412
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What Works Best for Getting the Unemployed Back toWork: Employment Services or Small-BusinessAssistance Programmes? Evidence from Romania
Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Recent empirical evidence has found that employment services and small-businessassistance programmes are often …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861856
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On the Optimality of a Minimum Wage:New Insights from Optimal Tax Theory
Hungerbühler, Mathias; Lehmann, Etienne - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We build a theoretical model to study whether a minimum wage can be welfare-improving if itis implemented in conjunction with an optimized nonlinear income tax. We consider this issuein a framework where search frictions on the labor market generate unemployment. Workersdiffer in productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862337
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Unemployment Insurance in Welfare States:Soft Constraints and Mild Sanctions
Røed, Knut; Westlie, Lars - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Based on a sequence of reforms in the Norwegian unemployment insurance (UI) system, weshow that activity-oriented UI regimes – i.e., regimes with a high likelihood of requiredparticipation in active labor market programs, duration limitations on unconditional UIentitlements, and high sanction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862596
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Is the Notification of Monitoring a Threat to theUnemployed? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In July 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the UnemploymentInsurance scheme. Workers claiming unemployment benefits for more than 13 months arenotified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862717
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should betargeted. We contrast measures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862794
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Another Economic Miracle?The German Labor Market and the Great Recession
Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
The mild response of the German labor market to the worst global recession in post-warhistory appears as an economic miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to bea strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important factors that have contributed tothis development include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486981