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Does the Quality of Training Programs Matter? Evidence from Bidding Processes Data
Chong, Alberto; Galdo, Jose - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We estimate the effect of training quality on earnings using a Peruvian program, which targets disadvantaged youths. The identification of causal effects is possible because of two attractive features in the data. First, selection of training courses is based on public bidding processes that...
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Assisting the Long-Term Unemployed: Results from a Randomized Trial
Breunig, Robert; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Dunlop, Yvonne; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Welfare reform in Australia centres on the concept of both economic and social participation. The policy concern is that people who fail to participate in economic and social life may become entrenched in disadvantage. In 2000 - 2001, a randomized trial was conducted by the Department of Family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762055
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Wie nachhaltig ist das deutsche Jobwunder? Eine Reformbilanz
Schneider, Hilmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Arbeitsmarktpolitik zu, sondern den Einschnitten bei den passiven Leistungen der Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Insbesondere die Abschaffung der … Arbeitslosenhilfe hat sowohl für eine Beseitigung der faktischen Frühverrentungsanreize durch die Arbeitslosenversicherung als auch für …
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Agenda 2020: Strategien für eine Politik der Vollbeschäftigung
Schneider, Hilmar; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Mit diesem Strategiepapier zeigt das Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) Wege auf, wie Deutschland in der vor uns … Entstehung von Arbeitslosigkeit ansetzende Betreuung aus einer Hand ist für die Problemgruppen des Arbeitsmarkts dringend …: Deutschland ist auch auf qualifizierte Zuwanderung angewiesen, um den Problemen von Demografie und Fachkräftemangel gewachsen zu …
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A Balancing Act at Times of Austerity: Matching the Supply and Demand for Skills in the Greek Labour Market
Pouliakas, Konstantinos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper provides an evidence-based assessment of the current situation prevailing in the Greek market for skills and jobs. The synthesis of available skills intelligence for Greece, the country most severely affected by the global economic crisis of 2008, is crucial as it is currently faced...
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The Global Economic Crisis: Long-Term Unemployment in the OECD
Junankar, Pramod N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper analyses the impact of the global economic crisis on unemployment and long term unemployment in the OECD. It uses simple econometric models using panel data (quarterly) and time series data. In general, we find that long term unemployment increases with the unemployment rate, there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359854
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Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and out of Management Positions
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
leadership positions reported the highest level of subjective life satisfaction. For women, no statistically significant … differences were observed among women in high-level managerial positions, women who worked in non-high-level positions, and women … who specialized in household production, with no market work. Only women who were unemployed reported lower levels of life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466456
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Konzentration statt Verzettelung: Die deutsche Arbeitsmarktpolitik am Scheideweg
Schneider, Hilmar; Eichhorst, Werner; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The German labor market reforms seem to be on the right track. However, they need to be adjusted especially on the organizational side to make them more effective. The labor market instruments can be concentrated on temporary company wage subsidies, training measures and financial incentives for...
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Testing Bounded Rationality against Full Rationality in Job Changing Behavior
Contini, Bruno; Morini, Matteo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In this paper we question the hypothesis of full rationality in the context of job changing behaviour, via simple econometric explorations on microdata drawn from WHIP (Worker Histories Italian Panel). Workers’ performance is compared at the end of a three-year time window that starts when...
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Low Pay Persistence in European Countries
Clark, Ken; Kanellopoulos, Nikolaos C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Using panel data for twelve European countries over the period 1994-2001 we estimate the extent of state dependence in low pay. Controlling for observable and unobservable heterogeneity as well as the endogeneity of initial conditions we find positive, statistically significant state dependence...
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