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Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a...
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We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...
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We present experimental evidence that enabling access to universal early child care for families with lower socioeconomic status (SES) increases maternal labor supply. Our intervention provides families with customized help for child care applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment...
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counselling and training in the Youth Work Plan (YWP) if a job is not found within three months. The length of the waiting period … impact of these policies on the transition rate to employment and on the quality of work. Both policies increase job finding …
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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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gender norms and labor-supply expectations within a survey experiment among 2,000 German adolescents. Using a hypothetical … scenario, we document that most girls expect to work 20 hours or less per week when having a young child, and expect from their … partners to work 30 hours or more. Randomized treatments that highlight the existing traditional norm towards mothers …
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’ time use for work, commuting, childcare, and housework. I find that the most robust effects emerge for paternal WFH … maternal time use for housework (combined with an increase of her work hours) and less by an increase in paternal time use for …
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The COVID19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in challenging situations. We look at Germany and quantify the macroeconomic importance of working parents. We document that 26 percent of the German workforce have children aged 14 or...
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This paper investigates whether incentives generated by public policies contribute to motherhood penalties. Specifically, we study the consequences of subsidized small jobs, the German Minijobs, which are frequently taken up by first-time mothers upon labor market return. Using a combination of...
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growth. Green investments are most effective in communities whose workers have the appropriate "green" skills. We then … provide new evidence on the skills requirements of both green and brown occupations, as well as from occupations at risk of …
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