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The threat of monitoring job search : a discontinuity design
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2010
Since July 2004 the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants is monitored in Belgium. We exploit the …
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Pure ethnic gaps in educational attainment and school to work transitions : when do they arise?
Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart - 2013
grandchildren of natives and immigrants in Belgium into (i) differences in observed family endowments and (ii) a residual "pure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721440
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Do the higher educated unemployed crowd out the lower educated ones in a competition for jobs?
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2002
This paper proposes a new method to estimate the extent of job competition between workers with different schooling levels. We estimate the structural parameters of a matching function generalised to incorporate crowding out effects. We use flow data out of unemployment containing information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412393
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How effective are hiring subsidies to reduce long-term unemployment among prime-aged jobseekers? : evidence from Belgium
Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - 2021
abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648522