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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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Are short-lived jobs stepping stones to long-lasting jobs?

Cockx, Bart; Picchio, Matteo - 2008

This paper assesses whether short-lived jobs (lasting one quarter or less and involuntarily ending in unemployment) are stepping stones to long-lasting jobs (enduring one year or more) for Belgian long-term unemployed school-leavers. We proceed in two steps. First, we estimate labour market...

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International comparisons and transfer of labour market institutions

Ochel, Wolfgang - 2002

International comparisons of labour market institutions and their transfer across boundaries have gained in importance. The paper deals with the question of the best way to proceed in making such comparisons. At the same time the question of the possibilities and limits to institutional transfer...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539100

Cyclical earnings, career and employment transitions

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo; Wiczer, David - 2022

This paper studies the cyclical behaviour of earnings risk and career changes. We document that the procyclical skewness of the earnings growth distribution arises mostly from the earnings changes of employer and occupation switchers. To uncover their relative importance in driving cyclical...

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Monitoring, sanctions and front-loading of job search in a non-stationary model

Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Launov, Andrey; Van der … - 2011

We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate a scheme that monitors job search effort and sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the unemployed to front-load search effort prior to...

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Imperfect monitoring of job search : structural estimation and policy design

Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Launov, Andrey; Van 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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Scarring effects of remaining unemployed for long-term unemployed school-leavers

Cockx, Bart; Picchio, Matteo - 2011

This study investigates whether and to what extent further unemployment experience for youths who are already long-term unemployed imposes a penalty on subsequent labor market outcomes. We propose a flexible method for analyzing the effect on wages aside of transitions from unemployment and...

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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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Switching from an inclining to a zero-level unemployment benefit profile : good for work incentives?

Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Inga, Leda - 2020

This paper evaluates the impact on the transition to work of a policy reform in Belgium that restricted the access to a … unexpectedly scrapped benefit eligibility for youths who start the waiting period at the age of 24 or older. The reform implied a … the causal impact of this reform on fresh university graduates. Our main finding is that this reform only increases the …

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Labor market sorting in Germany : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, April 2016

Lochner, Benjamin; Schulz, Bastian - 2016

This paper analyzes the allocation of workers to jobs and the wage distribution in Germany. Our main contribution is to reconcile prominent empirical models of wage dispersion (Abowd et al., 1999; Card et al., 2013) with theoretical sorting models (Shimer and Smith, 2000; Eeckhout and Kircher, 2011;...

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