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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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Can Job Search Assistance Improve the Labour Market Integration for Refugees? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Battisti, Michele; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018
We conducted a field experiment to evaluate the impact of job-search assistance on the employment of recently arrived refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932042
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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 heterogeneity of treatment effects according to the timing of training during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282053
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Monitoring job search effort with hyperbolic time preferences and non-compliance: A welfare analysis
Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna; Van der Linden, Bruno - 2013
This paper develops a partial equilibrium job search model to study the behavioral and welfare implications of an Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We show that, if the search requirements are well...
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The Employment Effect of Reforming a Public Employment Agency
Launov, Andrey; Wälde, Klaus - 2015
By how much does an increase in operating effectiveness of a public employment agency (PEA) and a reduction of unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388148
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Contracting Out Mandatory Counselling and Training for Long-Term Unemployed. Private For-Profit or Non-Profit, or Keep it Public?
Cockx, Bart; Baert, Stijn - 2015
This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long …
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Do Firms Benefit from Active Labour Market Policies?
Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny; Scioch, Patrycja - 2013
programs, in particular by subsidized employment and longer training programs. These findings complement the negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322998
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Wating Longer Before Claiming, and Activating Youth. No Point?
Cockx, Bart; van Belle, Eva - 2016
counselling and training in the Youth Work Plan (YWP) if a job is not found within three months. The length of the waiting period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555546
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Screening through Activation: Differential Effects of a Youth Activation Programme
Caroline, Kotakorpi, Kaisa Hall; Liljeberg, Linus; … - 2017
We study the dual role of active labour market policies: First, ALMP may perform a screening role by increasing job-finding rates among individuals with good labour market prospects, already prior to programme participation. Second, actual program participation may help individuals with poor...
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Imperfect Monitoring of Job Search: Structural Estimation and Policy Design
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Launov, Andrey; der … - 2017
We build and estimate a non-stationary structural job search model that incorporates the main stylized features of a typical job search monitoring scheme in unemployment insurance (UI) and acknowledges that search effort and requirements are measured imperfectly. Based on Belgian data,...
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