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Short-time work benefits revisited : some lessons from the Great Recession
Boeri, Tito; Brücker, Herbert - 2011
, Japan and Germany between 2.5 and 5 per cent of the workforce participated in short-time work schemes at the trough of the … Germany is more encouraging as to the effectiveness of STW, pointing to rather moderate deadweight losses. We interpret this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235845
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Policies to help the working class in the aftermath of COVID-19: lessons from the Great Recession
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Corinth, Kevin; Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated government mandated shutdowns caused a historic shock to the U.S. economy and a disproportionate job loss concentrated among the working class. While an unprecedented social safety net policy response successfully offset earnings loses among lower-wage...
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Do reemployment programs for the unemployed work for youth? : evidence from the Great Recession in the United States
Michaelides, Marios; Mueser, Peter R.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2020
We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients during the Great Recession. The three programs that emphasized monitoring and service referrals reduced UI receipt but had minimal effects on employment and...
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Labour market reallocation effects of COVID-19 policies in Spain : a tale of two recessions
Díaz, Antonia; Dolado, Juan J.; Jáñez, Álvaro; … - 2023
This paper studies short-time work arrangements (ERTEs) when aggregate risk is partially sector-specific. In Spain, the Great Recession and the pandemic recession (aka the Great Contagion) can both be understood as being driven partially by large sector-specific shocks. However, the latter shows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250592
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Before and after the Hartz reforms : the performance of active labour market policy in Germany
Jacobi, Lena (contributor); Kluve, Jochen (contributor) - 2006
Having faced high unemployment rates for more than a decade, the German government implemented a comprehensive set of labour market reforms during the period 2003-2005. This paper describes the economic and institutional context of the German labour market before and after these so-called Hartz...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314669
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Are training programs more effective when unemployment is high?
Lechner, Michael (contributor); Wunsch, Conny (contributor) - 2006
We estimate short, medium, and long-run individual labor market effects of training programs for unemployed by following program participation on a monthly basis over a ten-year period. Since analyzing the effectiveness of training over such a long period is impossible with experimental data, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003477394
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Wages, employment and tenure of temporarily subsidized workers ; does the industry matter?
Stephan, Gesine - 2010
This paper explores whether wage, employment and tenure outcomes of workers taking up a job subsidized by the German Federal Employment Agency differ by industry. The analysis utilizes administrative data and statistical matching techniques; it covers an observation period of 3.5 years. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008778683
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Which program for whom? : Evidence on the comparative effectiveness of public sponsored training programs in Germany
Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; … - 2007
We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety … dynamic selection into programs. Our results suggest that in West Germany both short-term and medium-term programs show … exceptions, we find little evidence for significant positive treatment effects in East Germany. There is some evidence that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003610024
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Turning unemployment into self-employment : effectiveness and efficiency of two start-up programmes
Baumgartner, Hans. J. (contributor);  … - 2007
recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany’s persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its … the unemployed into self-employment may prove to be among the most effective, both in Germany and elsewhere. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003539182
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Employment effects of the provision of specific professional skills and techniques in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor);  … - 2005
effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific … Germany compared to East Germany. -- training program ; employment effects ; administrative data ; matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003299995