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A letter and encouragement : does information increase post-secondary enrollment of UI recipients?
Barr, Andrew; Turner, Sarah E. - 2017
For individuals who experience job loss, enrollment in post-secondary programs may provide an opportunity to improve future employment outcomes. However, decisions to enroll may be hampered by insufficient information about the benefits and costs and the necessary steps and assistance available...
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Quick job entry or long-term human capital development? : the dynamic effects of alternative training schemes
Osikominu, Aderonke - 2012
unemployment as well as across different subgroups of participants. We find that participating in short-term training reduces the … remaining time in unemployment and moderately increases job stability. Long-term training programs initially prolong the … remaining time in unemployment, but once the scheduled program end is reached participants exit to employment at a much faster …
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"The double dividend of Training" : labor market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …
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A gift is not always a gift : gift exchange in a voucher experiment
Becker, Sascha O.; Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2011
Different from traditional gift exchange experiments, we study a field experiment where a random subsample of participants in the Swiss Labor Force Survey was sent vouchers to be used in adult training courses. Importantly for our purposes, actual voucher redemption can be traced. This gives the...
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The impact of macro news and central bank communication on emerging European forex markets
Égert, Balázs; Kočenda, Evžen - 2013
We employ two-stage empirical strategy to analyze the impact of macroeconomic news and central bank communication on the exchange rates of three Central and Eastern European (CEE) currencies against the euro. First we estimate the nominal equilibrium exchange rate based on a monetary model....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764449
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Transparency, flexibility and macroeconomic stabilization
Geraats, Petra M. - 2014
Many central banks have become more transparent during the last decade, in particular about macroeconomic prospects. This paper shows that such economic transparency could give central banks greater flexibility to respond to macroeconomic shocks. In particular, it allows central banks to...
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Sensitivity of matching-based program evaluations to the availability of control variables
Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2011
a very detailed and flexible way. Information on job search behaviour, timing of unemployment and program start, as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011187
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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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Does federally-funded job training work? : non-experimental estimates of WIA training impacts using longitudinal data on workers and firms
Andersson, Fredrik; Holzer, Harry J.; Lane, Julia; … - 2016
In what sense are institutions a deep determinant of growth? In this paper, we address this question by examining the relationship between city growth and institutional reform in 19th century Germany, when some cities experienced deep institutional reform as a result of French rule. Employing an...
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Tax effects, search unemployment, and the choice of educational type
Alstadsæter, Annette (contributor);  … - 2005
educational type with high consumption value and low effort costs. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in …
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