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Should Local Public Employment Services be Merged with the Local Social Benefit Administrations?
Holzner, Christian; Munz, Sonja - CESifo - 2011
The German Federal government has allowed some regions (Approved Local Providers) to be solely responsible for the care of long-term unemployed. The remaining regions had to form Joint Local Agencies, where the local social benefit administrations work together with the local public employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024843
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Out of Work and Into School: Labor Market Policies and College Enrollment During the Great Recession
Barr, Andrew; Turner, Sarah E. - CESifo - 2014
The Great Recession brought large increases in unemployment and college enrollment; we explore how changing labor market conditions affected the decision to enroll, focusing on the role of state-specific dimensions of Unemployment Insurance (UI) policy. We measure the enrollment response to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757730
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How to Stimulate Single Mothers on Welfare to Find a Job; Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Knoef, Marike; Ours, Jan C. van - CESifo - 2014
We present the results from a natural experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to find a job. Two policy instruments were introduced: an earnings disregard and job creation. The experiment was performed at the level of municipalities in The Netherlands, a country with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877926
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Business Cycles, Unemployment Insurance, and the Calibration of Matching Models
Costain, James S.; Reiter, Michael - CESifo - 2003
This paper points out an empirical failing of real business cycle models in which unemployment is endogenized through a matching function. One can easily choose a calibration to make the cyclical fluctuation in unemployment as large in the model as it is in the data, or to make the response of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196193
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Should Local Public Employment Services Be Merged with the Local Social Benefit Administrations?
Holzner, Christian - 2011
The German Federal government has allowed some regions (Approved Local Providers) to be solely responsible for the care of long-term unemployed. The remaining regions had to form Joint Local Agencies, where the local social benefit administrations work together with the local public employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124387
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How to Stimulate Single Mothers on Welfare to Find a Job; Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Knoef, Marike; van Ours, Jan C. - 2021
We present the results from a natural experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to find a job. Two policy instruments were introduced: an earnings disregard and job creation. The experiment was performed at the level of municipalities in The Netherlands, a country with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315599
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Out of Work and into School : Labor Market Policies and College Enrollment During the Great Recession
Barr, Andrew; Turner, Sarah E. - 2021
The Great Recession brought large increases in unemployment and college enrollment; we explore how changing labor market conditions affected the decision to enroll, focusing on the role of state-specific dimensions of Unemployment Insurance (UI) policy. We measure the enrollment response to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315615
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Student Awareness of Costs and Benefits of Educational Decisions : Effects of an Information Campaign and Media Exposure
McGuigan, Martin - 2014
University fees have recently trebled in England, prompting fears that young people may be put off from participating in higher education. We investigate students' knowledge and their receptiveness to information campaigns about the costs and benefits of staying on in education. We compare the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043598
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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap : Evidence from Italian Provinces
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2021
, we find that family structure is a driver of the education gender gap, with a higher female to male enrollment rate ratio …We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the … influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315695
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Do Undergraduate Majors or Ph.D. Students Affect Faculty Size?
Becker, William E.; Greene, William H.; Siegfried, John J. - CESifo - 2010
Regression analysis using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 14 years suggests that the economics faculty size of universities offering a Ph.D. in economics is determined primarily by the long-run average number of Ph.D. degrees awarded annually; the number of full-time faculty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572517