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Do Active Labor Market Policies Help Unemployed Workers to Find and Keep Regular Jobs?

van Ours, Jan C. - 2000

This paper uses an administrative dataset to analyze to what extent active labor market policies in the Slovak Republic have been beneficial for unemployed workers. The focus is on two types of temporary subsidized jobs and on training. Short-term subsidized jobs seem to be the most efficient...

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Cyclical Fluctuations in Workplace Accidents

Boone, Jan; van Ours, Jan C. - 2002

fired. Therefore a country with a high or an increasing unemployment rate has a low (reported) workplace accident rate. The … inversely related to both the level of unemployment and the change in unemployment. Furthermore, fatal accident rated do not …

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The Locking-in Effect of Subsidized Jobs

van Ours, Jan C. - 2002

job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells …

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Does the Recent Success of Some OECD Countries in Lowering their Unemployment Rates Lie in the Clever Design of their Labour Market Reforms?

Belot, Michèle; van Ours, Jan C. - 2000

The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which … the unemployment rate decreased a lot. A common feature of the successful countries is that they implemented a …

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From Parent to Child: Early Labor Market Experiences of Second-Generation Immigrants in the Netherlands

van Ours, Jan C.; Veenman, Justus - 2002

This paper is on the early labor market experiences of second-generation immigrants in the Netherlands. We find that only for employment rates there are some differences a cross ethnic groups. Conditional on having a job there is hardly any difference in wages and other job characteristics...

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Strategic Hiring Behavior in Empirical Matching Functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more accurate data set for Germany. Their results are...

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Disaggregate Matching Functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....

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Aggregate returns to individual decisions : development, income inequality and competition for jobs and workers

Sunde, Uwe - 2003

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Labor Supply and Matching Rates for Welfare Recipients: An Analysis Using Neighborhood Characteristics

van der Klaauw, Bas; van Ours, Jan C. - 2000

neighborhood unemployment rate. Other neighborhood characteristics such as the average housing price are not important. From this … we conclude that for young Dutch welfare recipients a high local unemployment rate has a negative spillover effect on the …

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Modeling Financial Incentives to Get Unemployed Back to Work

Boone, Jan; van Ours, Jan C. - 2000

We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job … search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of … benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across the board reduction in the replacement rate. …

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