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Cremer, Helmuth - 2013

This paper studies oligopolistic competition in education markets when schools can be private and public and when the …

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Contracting Out Mandatory Counselling and Training for Long-Term Unemployed : Private For-Profit or Non-Profit, or Keep it Public?

Cockx, Bart - 2015

This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...

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Homosexuality's Signalling Function in Job Candidate Screening : Why Gay is (Mostly) Ok

Sterkens, Philippe; Dalle, Axana; Wuyts, Joey; Pauwels, Ines - 2022

To explain the mixed findings on hiring discrimination against homosexual applicants, we explore the perceptual drivers behind employers' evaluations of gay men and lesbian women. Therefore, we conduct an extensive vignette experiment among 404 genuine recruiters, for which we test...

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Crowding Out in the Labour Market : Do Employers Lend a Hand?

Verhaest, Dieter - 2016

We test the basic assumption underlying the job competition and crowding out hypothesis: that employers always prefer …

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Maybe 'Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother' : Uncertain Family Aid and the Design of Social Long Term Care Insurance

Canta, Chiara - 2017

We study the role and design of private and public insurance programs when informal care is uncertain. Children's degree of altruism is randomly distributed over some interval. Social insurance helps parents who receive a low level of care, but it comes at the cost of crowding out informal care....

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Why is Unemployment Duration a Sorting Criterion in Hiring?

Van Belle, Eva - 2017

mechanisms often related to the scarring effect of unemployment: general signalling theory, (perceived) skill loss, queuing … theory, and rational herding. We use the resulting data to estimate a multiple mediation model, in which the effect of the … related to the scarring effect of unemployment: general signalling theory, (perceived) skill loss, queuing theory, and …

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Uncertain Altruism and Non-Linear Long-Term Care Policies

Canta, Chiara - 2018

We study the design of public long-term care (LTC) insurance when the altruism of informal caregivers is uncertain. We consider non-linear policies where the LTC benefit depends on the level of informal care, which is assumed to be observable while children's altruism is not. The traditional...

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The Signal of Applying for a Job Under a Vacancy Referral Scheme

Van Belle, Eva - 2018

Persistent unemployment across OECD countries has led to increasing investments in activation programmes and, as a consequence, rigorous evaluations of the effectiveness of these programmes. The results of these evaluations have been mixed at best. To improve the effectiveness of the activation...

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Unemployment or Overeducation : Which is a Worse Signal to Employers?

Baert, Stijn - 2014

This study aims at estimating the stigma effect of unemployment and overeducation within one framework. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. We send out trios of fictitious male job applications to real vacancies. These applications differ only by the labour...

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Transfers within a Three Generations Family : When the Rotten Kids Turn into Altruistic Parents

Cremer, Helmuth - 2014

We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the old may leave a bequest to their children. Within each...

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