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Is Short-Time Work a Good Method to Keep Unemployment Down?

Cahuc, Pierre - 2011

2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …

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When Short-Time Work Works

Cahuc, Pierre - 2018

Short-time work programs were revived by the Great Recession. To understand their operating mechanisms, we first provide a model showing that short-time work may save jobs in firms hit by strong negative revenue shocks, but not in less severely-hit firms, where hours worked are reduced, without...

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Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment:Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Start-UpProgrammes

Baumgartner, Hans. J.; Caliendo, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become a major focus of German activelabour market policy (ALMP) in … recent years. If effective, this would not only reduceGermanys persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its …

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Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies

Caliendo, Marco - 2011

Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their search effort on the job offer arrival rate. In this paper, we present an alternative model which assumes instead that each individual has a subjective belief about the impact of his...

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Two-Tier Labor Markets in the Great Recession : France vs. Spain

Bentolila, Samuel - 2010

labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in …This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …

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Social Networks, Job Search Methods and Reservation Wages : Evidence for Germany

Caliendo, Marco - 2010

In this paper we analyze the relationship between social networks and the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. It is believed that networks convey useful information in the job search process such that individuals with larger networks should experience a higher productivity of informal...

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Getting Back into the Labor Market : The Effects of Start-Up Subsidies for Unemployed Females

Caliendo, Marco - 2012

A shortage of skilled labor and low female labor market participation are problems many developed countries have to face. Besides activating inactive women, one possible solution is to support the re-integration of unemployed women. Due to female-specific labor market constraints (preferences...

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The German Labor Market after the Great Recession : Successful Reforms and Future Challenges

Caliendo, Marco - 2012

The reaction of the German labor market to the Great Recession 2008/09 was relatively mild – especially compared to other countries. The reason lies not only in the specific type of the recession – which was favorable for the German economy structure – but also in a series of labor market...

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Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality

Caliendo, Marco - 2012

incentives due to higher net earnings. Additional earnings during unemployment might lead to higher reservation wages prolonging … the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh …

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Mobility Assistance Programmes for Unemployed Workers, Job Search Behaviour and Labour Market Outcomes

Caliendo, Marco - 2017

reducing unemployment leads to industrialised countries offering financial support to unemployed job seekers when searching for …

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