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Retaining through Training: Even for Older Workers
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876567
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Do Active Labor Market Policies Help Unemployed Workers to Find and Keep Regular Jobs?
Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
This paper uses an administrative dataset to analyze to what extent active labor market policies in the Slovak Republic have been beneficial for unemployed workers. The focus is on two types of temporary subsidized jobs and on training. Short-term subsidized jobs seem to be the most efficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763603
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Individuals' Unemployment Experiences: Heterogeneity and Business Cycle Effects
Kalwij, Adriaan S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This study examines individuals’ unemployment experiences from the age of 18 up to the age of 35 using a large panel of … administrative records on unemployment related benefit claims of men in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. The main focus … is on the extent to which individuals’ unemployment experiences are affected by regional and skill differences, i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763923
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Individuals' Unemployment Durations over the Business Cycle
Kalwij, Adriaan S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Diamond (1994) that an individual’s probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases …
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