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Crépon, Bruno; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2016

discuss the assessment of costs and benefits of programs. …

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Informing employees in small and medium sized firms about training : results of a randomized field experiment

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Dauth, Christine; Homrighausen, Pia - 2018

We analyze a German labor market program that subsidizes skill-upgrading occupational training for workers employed in small and medium sized enterprises. This WeGebAU program reimburses training costs but take-up has been low. In an experimental setup, we mailed 10,000 brochures to potentially...

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The effect of search frictions on wages

Berg, Gerard J. van den (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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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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Job durations with worker and firm specific effects : MCMC estimation with longitudinal employer-employee data

Horny, Guillaume; Mendes, Rute; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2009

We study job durations using a multivariate hazard model allowing for worker-specific and firm-specific unobserved determinants. The latter are captured by unobserved heterogeneity terms or random effects, one at the firm level and another at the worker level. This enables us to decompose the...

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Long-run effects of dynamically assigned treatments : a new methodology and an evaluation of training effects on earnings

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vikström, Johan - 2019

We propose and implement a new method to estimate treatment effects in settings where individuals need to be in a certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the outcome of interest is realized after the individual...

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Treatment versus regime effects of carrots and sticks

Arni, Patrick; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lalive, Rafael - 2015

between carrots and sticks policies. Regime effects are economically substantial. Our comprehensive cost-benefits analyses …

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The IZA evaluation dataset : towards evidence-based labor policy-making

Caliendo, Marco; Falk, Armin; Kaiser, Lutz C.; … - 2010

The evaluation of labor market policies has become an important issue in many European countries. In recent years, a number of them have opened their administrative databases for evaluation studies. The advantages of administrative data are straightforward: they are accurate, contain a large...

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Structural empirical evaluation of job search monitoring

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2013

-unemployment outcomes like wages and job mobility, and survey data on measures of search behavior. As such we are the first to study … search channels during unemployment and compensates for adverse long-run effects of monitoring on wages. We use the … changes in the unemployment benefits path. Replacing monitoring by an overall benefits reduction in a way that is neutral to …

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Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers: a randomized controlled field experiment in Germany

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Stephan, Gesine - 2021

In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment agency and the unemployed, jointly signed by the latter and the caseworker. IAs stipulate rights and obligations but are generally perceived as instruments to control search...

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