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Income support, (un-)employment and well-being

Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; Wolf, Tobias - 2016

Using specific panel data of German welfare benefit recipients, we investigate the nonpecuniary life satisfaction effects of in-work benefits. Our empirical strategy combines difference-in-difference designs with synthetic control groups to analyze transitions of workers between unemployment,...

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Optimal use of labor market policies : the role of job search assistance

Wunsch, Conny - 2009

This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation measures such as monitoring and job search assistance...

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Workfare and trade unions : labor market repercussions of welfare reform

Schöb, Ronnie - 2003

Workfare proposals concentrate on the work incentives for welfare recipients, thus focusing on the labor supply side …. This paper analyzes the effects workfare has on labor demand when the labor market is unionized. As workfare reduces the … number of recipients of public financial assistance, a workfare regime, as opposed to a welfare system, weakens the outside …

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Labor market policy : a comparative view on the costs and benefits of labor market flexibility

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2010

I review theories and evidence on labor market policies and institutions in an international context. These include collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and active labor market policies. Scandinavia and Central...

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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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Personality traits and the evaluation of start-up subsidies

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

Many countries support business start-ups to spur economic growth and reduce unemployment with different programmes. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal interpretation of the results only if all relevant...

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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...

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Do firms benefit from active labour market policies?

Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny; Scioch, Patrycja - 2013 - This version: September 2013

This paper investigates the link between variation in the supply of workers who participate in specific types of active labour market policies (ALMPs) and firm performance using a new exceptionally informative German employer-employee data base. For identification we exploit that German local...

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The surprising French employment performance : what lessons?

Pisani-Ferry, Jean - 2003

Although widely regarded as a textbook case of a rigid economy, in the late 1990s France was able to increase employment by 10 per cent within five years and to cut down unemployment by more than a fourth. This paper investigates what factors may account for this surprising performance. The...

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Waiting longer before claiming, and activating youth : no point?

Cockx, Bart; Van Belle, Eva - 2016

In Belgium school-leavers are entitled to unemployment benefits after a waiting period and eligible to intensified counselling and training in the Youth Work Plan (YWP) if a job is not found within three months. The length of the waiting period and eligibility to the YWP are sharply determined...

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