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How to fight long-term unemployment : lessons from Germany

Spermann, Alexander - 2015

reducing long-term unemployment and long-term basic income receipt. An important element is an activation strategy for long …

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A European perspective on long‐term unemployment

Eichhorst, Werner; Neder, Franziska; Tobsch, Verena; … - 2015

In contrast to the recently decreasing unemployment rates in the EU, long-term unemployment remains at alarming levels. An economic recovery will not be sufficient to get all long-term unemployed back to work; rather, there is a need for effective policies addressing the long-term unemployed. To...

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Can active labour market policies combat youth unemployment?

Maibom Pedersen, Jonas; Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2014

Active labour market policies (ALMPs) may play an important role in preventing an increase in long-term unemployment following the Great Recession. We consider this issue for Denmark, a country relying extensively on this instrument. We present evidence on the effectiveness of ALMPs as a way of...

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Can welfare conditionality combat high school dropout?

Hernæs, Øystein; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2016

Based on administrative data, we analyze empirically the effects of stricter conditionality for social assistance receipt on welfare dependency and high school completion rates among Norwegian youths. Our evaluation strategy exploits a geographically differentiated implementation of...

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Faces of joblessness : characterising employment barriers to inform policy

Fernández, Rodrigo; Immervoll, Herwig; Pacifico, Daniele; … - 2016

that governments use when designing and implementing activation and employment-support policies. In particular, it aims to … carefully sequencing activation and employment support measures, and for coordinating them across policy domains and …

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The welfare effects of mandatory reemployment programs: combining a structural model and experimental data

Maibom Pedersen, Jonas - 2021

This paper estimates a structural model of job search which accounts for utility costs and benefits linked to mandatory reemployment programs. The estimation uses data from a randomized experiment which generates exogenous variation in the threat of program participation. I use the compensating...

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Making activation for young welfare recipients mandatory

Dahl, Espen; Hernæs, Øystein - 2022

Activation policies to promote self-sufficiency among recipients of welfare and other types of benefits are becoming … in an activation program for all welfare recipients below the age of 30. Analyzing the program's staggered implementation … the law change only impacting the participation of recipients with low expected gain from activation. …

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Does peacetime military service affect crime?

Albæk, Karsten; Leth-Petersen, Søren; Le Maire, Daniel; … - 2013

Draft lottery data combined with Danish longitudinal administrative records show that military service can reduce criminal activity for youth offenders who enter service at ages 19-22. For this group property crime is reduced for up to five years from the beginning of service, and the effect is...

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Faces of joblessness in Italy : a people-centred perspective on employment barriers and policies

Pacifico, Daniele; Browne, James; Fernández, Rodrigo; … - 2018

In the aftermath of the financial and economic crisis, large shares of working-age individuals in Italy either did not work or only to a limited extent. As the employment rate bottomed out in 2013, 32% were without employment during the entire year, and a further 7% had weak labour-market...

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Faces of joblessness in Australia : an anatomy of employment barriers using household data

Immervoll, Herwig; Pacifico, Daniele; Vandeweyer, Marieke - 2019

calling for a specific flavour of activation and employment-support policies. The most common employment obstacles are limited …

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