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Improving the integration of refugees : an early evaluation of a Swedish reform
Joona, Pernilla Andersson; Lanninger, Alma W.; … - 2015
facilitating and speeding up the integration of refugees and their family into the labor market and the society. From December 1 …, 2010 the reform transferred the responsibility for the integration of newly-arrived refugees from the municipalities to the … was motived by concern over the low employment level and slow integration of refugees. Our approach is to compare the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387160
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Reforming the integration of refugees : the Swedish experience
Andersson Joona, Pernilla; Lanninger, Alma W.; … - 2016
establishment of refugees and their family. From December 1, 2010 the reform transferred the responsibility for the integration of … employment level and slow integration of refugees. Our approach is to compare the outcomes of the Treatment group, which took …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572024
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Does the welfare state make older workers unemployable?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009
This paper discusses the specificities of the labor market for older workers. It discusses the implications of those specificities for the effect of labor market institutions on the employability of those workers. It shows that while unemployment benefits indexed backwards and hiring costs are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900521
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Worker identity, employment fluctuations and stabilization policy
Snower, Dennis J.; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2013
This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis" whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752694
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Heterogeneous sports participation and labour market outcomes in England
Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - 2013
Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on employment and earnings in England. Clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201710
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The consequences of long term unemployment : evidence from matched employer-employee data
Abraham, Katharine G.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Sandusky, … - 2016
It is well known that the long-term unemployed fare worse in the labor market than the short-term unemployed, but less clear why this is so. One potential explanation is that the long-term unemployed are "bad apples" who had poorer prospects from the outset of their spells (heterogeneity)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541313
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Retaining through training : even for older workers
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2011
This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235187
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"Employability-miles" and worker employability awareness
Gerards, Ruud; Grip, Andries de; Witlox, Maaike - 2012
This article studies the use and impact of a firm-sponsored training ("Employability-miles") voucher scheme that aims to stimulate employees to develop a more active attitude toward their own employability. Using data from two surveys of the firm's workforce, we find that voucher use is related...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009613686
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Strategies to productively reincorporate the formerly-incarcerated into communities : a review of the literature
Doleac, Jennifer L. - 2018
Two-thirds of those released from prison in the United States will be re-arrested within three years, creating an incarceration cycle that is detrimental to individuals, families, and communities. There is tremendous public interest in ending this cycle, and public policies can help or hinder...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880782
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Intergenerational effects of incarceration
Bhuller, Manudeep; Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V.; … - 2018
An often overlooked population in discussions of prison reform is the children of inmates. How a child is affected depends both on what incarceration does to their parent and what they learn from their parent's experience. To overcome endogeneity concerns, we exploit the random assignment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795077