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Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - CESifo - 2014

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate … testable predictions regarding heterogeneous treatment effects from such programs. Using a large randomized evaluation in the … labor market discrimination. We do find a short-run effect on business ownership for those unemployed at baseline, but this …

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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; Robin, Stéphane; Goebel, Christian - CESifo - 2006

to non-subsidised, “regular” employment. Using a sample of 8630 long-term unemployed young women, whose labour market …

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

Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - CESifo - 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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Should Local Public Employment Services be Merged with the Local Social Benefit Administrations?

Holzner, Christian; Munz, Sonja - CESifo - 2011

Providers seem to have implemented a better organisational structure. However, their relatively poor performance overall …

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The Threat of Monitoring Job Search. A Discontinuity Design

Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - CESifo - 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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