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Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2016

. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their …

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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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The threat of monitoring job search: A discontinuity design

Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2010

Since July 2004 the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants is monitored in Belgium. We exploit the discontinuity in the treatment assignment at the age of 30 to evaluate the effect of a notification sent at least 8 months before job search is verified. The threat of...

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Do Weak Institutions Prolong Crises? On the Identification, Characteristics, and Duration of Declines during Economic Slumps

Bluhm, Richard; de Crombrugghe, Denis; Szirmai, Adam - 2014

This paper defines economic slumps as sequences of structural breaks exhibiting a specific pattern. We identify 58 such episodes between 1950 and 2008 among 138 countries, and then examine the phases of decline and their duration. In some countries declines last extremely long, and we put...

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Overeducation at the Start of the Career - Stepping Stone or Trap?

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Verhaest, Dieter - 2012

This study investigates whether young unemployed graduates who accept a job below their level of education accelerate or delay the transition into a job that matches their level of education. We adopt the Timing of Events approach to identify this dynamic treatment effect using monthly calendar...

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Is the notification of monitoring a threat to the unemployed?: a regression discontinuity approach

Cockx, Bart Leo Wim; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2007

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

Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2021

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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-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...

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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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Income support policies for part-time workers: a stepping-stone to regular jobs? ; an application to young Long-term unemployed women in Belgium

Cockx, Bart Leo Wim; Robin, Stéphane; Goebel, Christian - 2006

We verify whether an income support policy for part-time workers in Belgium increases the transition from unemployment to non-subsidised, "regular" employment. Using a sample of 8630 long-term unemployed young women, whose labour market history is observed from 1998 to 2001, we implement the...

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