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Do active labor market policies help unemployed workers to find and keep regular jobs?

Ours, Jan C. van - 2000

This paper uses an administrative dataset to analyze to what extent active labor market policies in the Slovak Republic have been beneficial for unemployed workers. The focus is on two types of temporary subsidized jobs and on training. Short-term subsidized jobs seem to be the most efficient...

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Bestimmungsgründe von Fehlzeiten : welche Rolle spielt die Arbeitslosigkeit?

Thalmaier, Anja - 1999

Das Ziel der vorliegenden Untersuchung besteht darin, die wesentlichen Determinanten für das Auftreten von Fehlzeiten zu analysieren. In einem ersten Schritt werden die institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen der Entgeltfortzahlung und ihre historische Entwicklung aufgezeigt. Die Analyse...

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Benefit entitlement and the labor market : evidence from a large-scale policy change

Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002

This paper analyzes the impact of the Austrian Regional Extended Benefit Program (REBP) on the labor market outcomes for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 weeks for elderly individuals in certain regions....

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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...

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Benefit duration, unemployment duration and job match quality : a regression-discontinuity approach

Caliendo, Marco; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2009

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or entitlement, has a negative impact on the job...

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Estimating the latent effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment duration

Lo, Simon M. S.; Stephan, Gesine; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2012

We estimate the effect of a shortening of unemployment benefit entitlements on unemployment duration. Previous studies on the same or related problems have not taken into account that the competing risks duration model is not identified and we shed first light on the question whether the non...

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Empirical Monte Carlo evidence on estimation of timing-of-events models

Lombardi, Stefano; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vikström, Johan - 2021

This paper builds on the Empirical Monte Carlo simulation approach developed by Huber et al. (2013) to study the estimation of Timing-of-Events (ToE) models. We exploit rich Swedish data of unemployed job-seekers with information on participation in a training program to simulate placebo...

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Is there a rationale to contact the unemployed right from the start? : evidence from a natural field experiment

Van Landeghem, Bert G. M.; Cörvers, Frank; Grip, Andries de - 2016

Active Labour Market Policies often exclusively target towards the long-term unemployed. Although it might be more efficient to intervene earlier in order to prevent long-term unemployment rather than to cure it, the climate of austerity in Eurozone countries is spreading a tendency to further...

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A European perspective on long‐term unemployment

Eichhorst, Werner; Neder, Franziska; Tobsch, Verena; … - 2015

In contrast to the recently decreasing unemployment rates in the EU, long-term unemployment remains at alarming levels. An economic recovery will not be sufficient to get all long-term unemployed back to work; rather, there is a need for effective policies addressing the long-term unemployed. To...

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Anatomy of policy complementarities

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more … extensive reform programs. We argue that the heart of these problems may be the failure of many European governments to … implement broad-based reform strategies. Our analysis suggests that major unemployment policies are characterised by economic …

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