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Long-term effects of individual placement and support services for disability benefits recipients with severe mental illnesses
Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de; Spijkerman, Marcel; Zwinkels, Wim - 2020
This paper examines a broad set of short- and long-term impacts of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) for disability benefit recipients with severe mental disabilities. IPS is a specific intervention that first aims to place an individual in employment and subsequently trains the worker on...
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Public-sector compensation over the life cycle
Gomes, Pedro; Wellschmied, Felix - 2020
The size of the public sector in terms of employment and compensation has a strong life-cycle dimension. We establish a quantitative partial-equilibrium life-cycle model with incomplete markets, private and public sectors, and risk-averse workers, and use it to (i) calculate three dimensions of...
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How changes in unemployment benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment
Ours, Jan C. van; Tuit, Sander - 2010
which they would receive old age pensions. This characteristic made it attractive for workers to enter unemployment shortly …
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Seek and ye shall find : how search requirements affect job finding rates of older workers
Hullegie, Patrick; Ours, Jan C. van - 2013
Unemployment insurance recipients in the Netherlands were for a long time exempted from the requirement to actively search for a job when they reached the age of 57.5. We study how this exemption affected the job finding rates of the recipients involved. We find evidence that the job finding...
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Selective exercise of discretion in disability insurance awards
Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Koning, Pierre; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2023
Variation in assessor stringency in awarding benefits leaves applicants exposed to uninsured risk that could be systematic if discretion were exercised selectively. We test for this using administrative data on applications to the Dutch disability insurance program. We find that discretion is...
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Savings for unemployment in good or bad times : options for developing countries
Robalino, David; Vodopivec, Milan; Bodor, Andras - 2009
The paper describes and evaluates unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) - a relatively new and not well … integrated with mandatory pension systems (and even social pensions), UISAs can be rapidly deployed and at a low cost, thus … management of short and long term savings (i.e., pension wealth) while avoiding unnecessary administrative costs. The paper …
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An unfulfilled promise? : higher education quality and professional underemployment in Peru
Yamada, Gustavo; Lavado, Pablo; Martínez, Joan J. - 2015
Despite the high growth of the Peruvian economy during the last decade, college graduates are facing increasing difficulties to find occupations that match their higher educational background, skills and educational investments. This scenario is embodied in the "professional underemployment"...
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Identification and inference in regression discontinuity designs with a manipulated running variable
Gerard, François; Rokkanen, Miikka; Rothe, Christoph - 2015
A key assumption in regression discontinuity analysis is that units cannot manipulate the value of their running variable in a way that guarantees or avoids assignment to the treatment. Standard identification arguments break down if this condition is violated. This paper shows that treatment...
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Direct and indirect effects of training vouchers for the unemployed
Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Strittmatter, Anthony - 2015
This paper evaluates the effect of a voucher award system for assignment into vocational training on the employment outcomes of unemployed voucher recipients in Germany, along with the causal mechanisms through which it operates. It assesses the direct effect of voucher assignment net of actual...
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Does the link between unemployment and crime depend on the crime level? : a quantile regression approach
Entorf, Horst; Sieger, Philip - 2014
Two alternative hypotheses - referred to as opportunity- and stigma-based behavior - suggest that the relationship between unemployment and crime also depends on preexisting local crime levels. In order to analyze conjectured nonlinearities between both variables, we are using quantile...
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