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Fertility, female labor supply and public policy

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2001

Historically, in virtually all developed economies there seems to be clear evidence of an inverse relationship between female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last decade or so, the relationship across countries has been positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy...

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Incapacity benefits and employment policy

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

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The locking-in effect of subsidized jobs

Ours, Jan C. van - 2002

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How does imperfect competition in the labor market affect unemployment policies?

Wauthy, Xavier Yves; Zenou, Yves - 2001

We consider a continuum of workers ranked according to their abilities to acquire education and two firms with different technologies that imperfectly compete in wages to attract these workers. Once employed, each worker bears an education cost proportional to his/her initial ability, this cost...

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Disentangling treatment effects of Polish active labor market policies : evidence from matched samples

Kluve, Jochen; Lehmann, Hartmut; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001

This paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labor market policies - Training and Intervention Works - on employment probabilities. Using data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force Survey we discuss three stages of an appropriately designed matching procedure and demonstrate...

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Counseling and monitoring of unemployed workers : theory and evidence from a controlled social experiment

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2001

We investigate the effect of counseling and monitoring on the individual transition rate to employment. We theoretically analyze these policies in a job search model with two search channels and endogenous search effort. In the empirical analysis we use unique administrative and survey data...

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The impact of active labor market programs and benefit entitlement rules on the duration of unemployment

Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C. van; Zweimüller, Josef - 2000

transition rate to jobs increases for Swiss women but not for Swiss men. However, the job hazard rate is strongly reduced during … durations for women. (ii) Once the unemployment spell approaches the expiration of unconditional benefit entitlement the job …-hazard rate increases strongly, both for women and for men. (iii) There are important selectivity effects for Swiss females, but …

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Discretionary measures of active labor market policy : the German employment promotion reform in perspective

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000

This paper provides a preliminary assessment of recent reforms of German employment promotion policy. While several recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on the aggregate level, thus precluding any assessment of...

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Evaluation of active labour market policy : methodological concepts and empirical estimates

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco - 2000

Persistently high unemployment, tight government budgets and the growing scepticism regarding the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) are the basis for a growing interest in evaluating these measures. This paper intends to explain the need for evaluation on the micro- and...

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The effects of public sector sponsored training on individual employment performance in East Germany

Hujer, Reinhard; Wellner, Marc - 2000

This study analyses the effects of public sector sponsored vocational training on individual unemployment and employment duration in East Germany. The data is taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). The empirical analysis is limited to training measures that took place between July...

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