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The role of workfare in striking a balance between incentives and insurance in the labour market

Andersen, Torben M.; Svarer, Michael - 2008

Workfare policies are often introduced in labour market policies to improve the trade-off between incentives and … equilibrium search framework, we show that the effects of workfare policies critically depend on the response of those not in the … programme when they take into account that workfare is a condition for remaining eligible for unemployment benefits. This …

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The effect of extending the duration of eligibility in an Italian labour market programme for dismissed workers

Paggiaro, Adriano; Rettore, Enrico; Trivellato, Ugo - 2008

Liste di mobilità (LM) is an Italian labour market programme targeted to dismissed workers. There is a passive component granting monetary benefits to employees dismissed by firms larger than 15 employees, and an active component providing an employment subsidy to any firm hiring workers from...

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The political economy of two-tier reforms of employment protection in Europe

Ochel, Wolfgang - 2008

Reforms of employment protection (EPL) in Europe eased the recourse to temporary forms of employment while not reducing the strictness of EPL of permanent jobs (with the exception of Spain). Since 1990, such two-tier reforms have been implemented in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the...

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Labor market policy: A comparative view on the costs and benefits of labor market flexibility

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2010

I review theories and evidence on labor market policies and institutions in an international context. These include collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and active labor market policies. Scandinavia and Central...

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Sensitivity of matching-based program evaluations to the availability of control variables

Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2011

Based on new, exceptionally informative and large German linked employer-employee administrative data, we investigate the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching estimation leads to biased impact estimates of typical active labour market programs for the...

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Quick job entry or long-term human capital development? The dynamic effects of alternative training schemes

Osikominu, Aderonke - 2012

This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human capital intensive training programs work. We evaluate and compare their effects on time until job entry, stability of employment, and earnings. Further, we examine the...

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Priority of Unemployed Immigrants? A Causal Machine Learning Evaluation of Training in Belgium

Cockx, Bart - 2020

Based on administrative data of unemployed in Belgium, we estimate the labour market effects of three training programmes at various aggregation levels using Modified Causal Forests, a causal machine learning estimator. While all programmes have positive effects after the lock-in period, we find...

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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Unemployed Youths—Beware of Spillovers

Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022

We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...

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The free movement of inactive citizens in the EU: a challenge for the european welfare state?

Ochel, Wolfgang - 2007

The EU Directive on Free Movement of 2004 extended free movement within the EU to Union citizens who are inactive and gave them access to the welfare benefits of host countries. The paper examines the extent to which these measures provoke migration to those countries with the highest levels of...

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Employing the Unemployed of Marienthal : Evaluation of a Guaranteed Job Program

Kasy, Maximilian; Lehner, Lukas - 2023

We evaluate a guaranteed job program launched in 2020 in Austria. Our evaluation is based on three approaches, pairwise matched randomization, a pre-registered synthetic control at the municipality level, and a comparison to individuals in control municipalities. This allows us to estimate...

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