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Public Employment Agency Reform, Matching Efficiency, and German Unemployment

Merkl, Christian; Sauerbier, Timo - 2023

Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the … restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment … workers reduced unemployed by 0.8 percentage points. Through the lens of an aggregate matching function, more activation is …

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Is the Notification of Monitoring a Threat to the Unemployed? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2021

In July 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the Unemployment Insurance scheme. Workers claiming unemployment benefits for more than 13 months are notified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later. In one region the target group is counselled shortly...

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Can Job Search Assistance Improve the Labour Market Integration for Refugees? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Battisti, Michele - 2019

refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the …

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How Does For-Profit College Attendance Affect Student Loans, Defaults and Labor Market Outcomes?

Armona, Luis - 2019

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend for-profit institutions take on more educational debt, have worse labor market outcomes, and are more likely to default than students attending similarly-selective public...

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Contracting out temporary help services in Germany

Jahn, Elke J.; Ochel, Wolfgang - 2005

Since 2003 the German Public Employment Service (PES) has been experimenting with the contracting out of various services. One of the new labour market programmes is the Personnel Service Agencies, which provide client firms with jobseekers on a temporary assignment basis and are responsible for...

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Reciprocity in Dynamic Employment Relationships

Fahn, Matthias - 2020

This paper analyzes a dynamic relational contract for employees with reciprocal preferences. I develop a tractable model to investigate how "direct" performance-pay (promising a bonus in exchange for effort) and generous upfront wages (which activate the norm of reciprocity) interact over the...

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Reciprocity in Dynamic Employment Relationships

Fahn, Matthias - 2019

This paper explores how a relational contract establishes a norm of reciprocity and how such a norm shapes the provision of informal incentives. Developing a model of a long-term employment relationship, I show that generous upfront wages that activate the norm of reciprocity are more important...

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How Broadband Internet Affects Labor Market Matching

Bhuller, Manudeep - 2020

How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi …

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Recruitment Policies, Job-Filling Rates and Matching Efficiency

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2020

Recruitment behavior is important for the matching process in the labor market. Using unique linked survey … points to an important role of hiring standards for matching efficiency and for the impact of labor market policy, whereas …

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Motivation and Incentives in an Online Labor Market

Fest, Sebastian - 2019

In this paper we present results from a large scale real effort experiment in an online labor market investigating the effect of performance pay and two common leadership techniques: Positive expectations and specific goals. We find that positive expectations have a significant negative effect...

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