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Do Youth Employment Programs Improve Labor Market Outcomes? A Systematic Review
Kluve, Jochen; Puerto, Susanna; Robalino, David; … - 2016
This study reviews the evidence on the labor market impact of youth employment programs. We analyze the effectiveness of interventions, and factors that influence program performance including country context, target beneficiaries, program design, implementation, and evaluation type. We identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584258
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The Aggregate Labour Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program
Albrecht, James; den Berg, Gerard J van; Vroman, Susan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997--2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labour market outcomes. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123553
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Active Labour Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe - A Survey
Bergemann, Annette; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labour market policies on individual labour market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662001
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Labor Force Status Dynamics in the German Labor Market - Individual Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity
Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2009
between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend …The aggregate average unemployment rate in a given country is essentially the result of individual workers' transitions … unemployment rates is more sensitive to cyclical behavior for certain demographic groups, specifically unskilled and young workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265772
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Women's Fertility and Employment Decisions under Two Political Systems - Comparing East and West Germany before Reunification
Bredtmann, Julia; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra - 2009
Over the last decades fertility rates have decreased in most developed countries, while female labour force participation has increased strongly over the same time period. To shed light on the relationship between women's fertility and employment decisions, we analyse their transitions to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265813
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Women's Fertility and Employment Decisions under Two Political Systems - Comparing East and West Germany before Reunification
Bredtmann, Julia; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
Over the last decades fertility rates have decreased in most developed countries, while female labour force participation has increased strongly over the same time period. To shed light on the relationship between women's fertility and employment decisions, we analyse their transitions to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509376
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Labor Force Status Dynamics in the German Labor Market - Individual Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity
Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend …The aggregate average unemployment rate in a given country is essentially the result of individual workers' transitions … unemployment rates is more sensitive to cyclical behavior for certain demographic groups, specifically unskilled and young workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008558459
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Empirical Labour Search: A Survey
Eckstein, Zvi; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This Paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to analyse empirically labour supply questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labour market transitions and durations, wages, and individual characteristics. The starting points of the literature are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792322
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Beyond Balassa and Samuelson: Real convergence, capital flows, and competitiveness in Greece
Belke, Ansgar; Haskamp, Ulrich; Schnabl, Gunther; … - 2015
We scrutinize the role of capital flows in competitiveness in a set of seven euroarea member countries (Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia, and the Slovak Republic) in the context of real convergence and crisis. A specific focus is on Greece. The paper extends the seminal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372079
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Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe
Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - 2009
The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the context of real convergence. For this purpose it extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model by international capital markets. The augmented Balassa-Samuelson model is linked to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265796