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change in the unemployment rate. Many estimated effects are larger for males than females. Notably, strong evidence of …
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With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for welfare recipients aged younger than 25 years. For all types of non-compliance except for missing appointments, their basic cash benefit is withdrawn for three months. A second...
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We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI …
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This paper examines the occurrence of structural breaks in European unemployment associated with major events … unemployment rates. While adult unemployment is more prone to experience structural breaks, youth unemployment is more sensitive to … reforms are not effective enough to solve the youth unemployment problem across Europe. We point to educational policies that …
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In Belgium school-leavers are entitled to unemployment benefits after a waiting period and eligible to intensified …
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We study the effect of a job training program for low income youth in Cordoba, Argentina. The program included life-skills and vocational training, as well as internships with private sector employers. Participants were allocated by means of a public lottery. We rely on administrative data on...
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principle, the program should be able to affect the frictional and mismatch components of unemployment, if not the Keynesian and … training systems. To tackle the Keynesian and neoclassical components of unemployment, instead, it is vital to rethink the …
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Active labour market policies (ALMPs) may play an important role in preventing an increase in long-term unemployment … evidence on the effectiveness of ALMPs as a way of fighting youth unemployment using results from a randomised controlled trial …
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Social welfare systems usually imply specific obligations for benefit recipients. If a recipient does not comply with these obligations, a sanction involving a punitive benefits reduction may be imposed. In this paper we give an overview of the literature on the effects of sanctions in social...
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This paper compares the relative effectiveness of selected active labour market policies available to young unemployed people in Poland over the 2015-2016 period. We use rich administrative data and propensity score matching techniques to control for the non-random selection of unemployed...
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