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Does the Recent Success of Some OECD Countries in Lowering their Unemployment Rates Lie in the Clever Design of their Labour Market Reform?

Belot, Michèle; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

unemployment is affected by different labour market institutions (LMI) such as labour taxes, unemployment benefits, employment …The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also ‘successful’ countries in which …

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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...

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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...

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