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den Berg, Gerard J. van; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Social welfare systems usually imply specific obligations for benefit recipients. If a recipient does not comply with these obligations, a sanction involving a punitive benefits reduction may be imposed. In this paper we give an overview of the literature on the effects of sanctions in social...

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Vocational High School or Vocational College? Comparing the Transitions from School to Work

Lopez-Mayan, Cristina; Nicodemo, Catia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using a specific micro-dataset with information on working histories, we analyse the labour market entry of Spanish youths who have completed vocational education. According to the education system, young people can enter the labour market with vocational high school (upper secondary education)...

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Dependence Measures in Bivariate Gamma Frailty Models

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Effraimidis, Georgios - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Bivariate duration data frequently arise in economics, biostatistics and other areas. In "bivariate frailty models …

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Childhood Economic Conditions and Length of Life: Evidence from the UK Boyd Orr Cohort, 1937-2005

Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael A.; Hatton, Timothy J.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

up to 2005. We estimate a number of duration of life models that control for unobserved household heterogeneity. Our …

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The Effect of Location on Finding a Job in the Greater Paris Area

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Selod, Harris - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalities in the Ile-de-France region (Paris Greater Area). In order to characterize these imbalances, we estimate a proportional hazard model stratified by municipality on an exhaustive dataset of all...

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The Locking-in Effect of Subsidized Jobs

Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

. The focus of the analysis is temporary subsidized jobs. By exploiting the variation in the duration of these jobs it is …

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How Binding Are Legal Limits? Transitions from Temporary to Permanent Work in Spain

Güell, Maia; Petrongolo, Barbara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

-term contracts. Since then most accessions to employment have been through fixed-term contracts. This paper studies the duration … share of fixed-term employment is the highest in Europe. We estimate a duration model for temporary employment, with … competing risks of terminating into permanent employment versus alternative states, and flexible duration dependence. We find …

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Employment Dynamics and the Structure of Labor Adjustment Costs

Varejão, José; Portugal, Pedro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

. We also find that the probability of employment adjustment increases with the duration of inaction (positive duration …

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Works Councils and Separations: Voice, Monopoly, and Insurance Effects

Hirsch, Boris; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is associated with a lower separation rate to employment, in particular for men and workers with low tenure. While works council monopoly effects show up in all specifications, clear voice...

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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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