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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature

Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …

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Public works for Poland? Active labour market policies during transition

Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1996

Following the predominance of macroeconomic stabilisation policies and passive income support schemes in the first phase of transition, active labour market policies (ALMPs) have now come to play a more important role in transition economies. This paper looks at the Polish experience and...

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Explaining the Employability Gap of Short-term and Long-term Unemployed Persons

Thomsen, Stephan L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper analyzes the determinants of employability differences between short-term and long-term unemployed persons. Knowing these differences could help to address active labor market policy programs more adequately to the needs of the job-seekers in order to increase employment integration....

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Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany: A Labor Market Classification Based on Nonparametric Estimation

Puhani, Patrick A.; Frölich, Markus - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

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Physical activity of adults: A survey of correlates, determinants, and effects

Cabane, Charlotte; Lechner, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

We survey the literature on the link of labour market related outcomes to individ-ual physical activity and sports participation. The first part of the survey is devoted to the individual participation decision and is based on papers from various disciplines. The sec-ond part summarises parts of...

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Employment and earnings effects of awarding training vouchers in Germany

Doerr, Annabelle; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kruppe, Thomas; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

In 2003, Germany moved from a system in which participants in training programs for the unemployed are assigned by caseworkers to an allocation system using vouchers. Based on the rich administrative data for all vouchers and on actual program participation, we provide inverse probability...

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Youth unemployment in the OECD: The role of institutions

Sachs, Andreas; Smolny, Werner - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This paper analyzes the role of labor market institutions for youth unemployment, as contrasted to total unemployment … high effect of employment protection for regular jobs on youth unemployment. In addition, the combined effects of powerful … establishes significant labor supply effects and effects of the education system on youth and total unemployment. …

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Benchmarking regions: Estimating the counterfactual distribution of labor market outcomes

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

This paper develops and implements a new benchmarking approach for labor market regions. Based on panel data for regions, we use nonparametric matching techniques to account for observed labor market characteristics and for spatial proximity. As the benchmark, we estimate the counterfactual...

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The heterogeneous effects of training incidence and duration on labor market transitions

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Paul, Marie - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

This paper estimates the impact of training incidence and duration on employment transitions accounting for the endogeneity of program participation and duration. We specify a very flexible bivariate random effects probit model for employment and training participation and we use Bayesian Markov...

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The impact of non-profit temping agencies on individual labour market success in the West German state of Rhineland-Palatinate

Lechner, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Spengler, Hannes; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

The paper presents an econometric evaluation of the effects of subsidised non-profit temporary employment agencies - a programme of the West German active labour market policy - on individual labour market outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on individual data from files for...

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