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Job Search with Nonparticipation
Frijters, Paul; van der Klaauw, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
these transitions allows the identification of duration dependence in the job offer arrival rate and the wage offer … likelihood. The results show that the presence of significant negative duration dependence in the wage offer distribution causes … reservation wages to decrease. The rate at which job offers arrive is constant over the unemployment duration. These findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822398
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies...
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The IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey: A Scientific Use File
Arni, Patrick; Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
the German Federal Employment Agency with innovative survey data to study the out-mobility of individuals to work. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884147
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The IZA Evaluation Dataset: Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making
Caliendo, Marco; Falk, Armin; Kaiser, Lutz C.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The evaluation of labor market policies has become an important issue in many European countries. In recent years, a number of them have opened their administrative databases for evaluation studies. The advantages of administrative data are straightforward: they are accurate, contain a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805614
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Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition: A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia
Brown, J. David; Earle, John; Gimpelson, Vladimir; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of transition economy labor markets have typically relied upon. We analyze microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822393
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Survey Non-Response and Unemployment Duration
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Lindeboom, Maarten; Dolton, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey nonresponse may then cause a bias … methodology exploits variation in the timing of the duration outcome relative to the survey moment. The results show evidence for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566349
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Monitoring Job Search Effort with Hyperbolic Time Preferences and Non-Compliance: A Welfare Analysis
Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna; Van der Linden, Bruno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper develops a partial equilibrium job search model to study the behavioral and welfare implications of an Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We show that, if the search requirements are well...
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The Effect of Extended Unemployment Benefit on the Job Finding Hazards: A Quasi-Experiment in Japan
Machikita, Tomohiro; Kohara, Miki; Sasaki, Masaru - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper studies how changes in extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefit affect the duration of unemployment. We … separation from the previous job in the Japanese UI system which determines a worker's maximum potential UI benefit duration at … not lead to a decrease in the jobless hazard; the duration of unemployment is not prolonged among jobseekers who have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884217
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Reemployment and Substitution Effects from Increased Activation: Evidence from Times of Crisis
Martins, Pedro S.; Pessoa e Costa, Sofia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Although activation services such as monitoring, training, or job subsidies have been shown to increase exits from unemployment, there is little comprehensive evidence about the effects of activation during recessions. Here we evaluate a large activation programme introduced in Portugal in 2012,...
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Private and Public Provision of Counseling to Job-Seekers: Evidence from a Large Controlled Experiment
Behaghel, Luc; Crépon, Bruno; Gurgand, Marc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Contracting out public services to private firms has ambiguous effects when quality is imperfectly observable. Using a randomized experiment over a national sample in France, we compare the efficiency of the public employment service (PES) vs. private providers in delivering very similar...
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