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Targeting Labour Market Programmes:Results from a Randomized Experiment

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assistcaseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour marketprogrammes for their unemployed clients. This statistical support system predicted the labourmarket outcome for each...

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Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland

Lechner, Michael; Gerfin, Michael - 2000

potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses unusually informative data originating from administrative unemployment …

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Unemployed and their caseworkers: should they be friends or foes?

Behnke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - 2007

In many countries, caseworkers in a public employment office have the dual roles of counselling and monitoring unemployed persons. These roles often conflict with each other leading to important caseworker heterogeneity: Some consider providing services to their clients and satisfying their...

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A caseworker like me: does the similarity between unemployed and caseworker increase job placements?

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - 2008

This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their...

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To meet or not to meet (your case worker): That is the question

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Kjaersgaard, Lene; Rosholm, Michael - 2012

unemployment to employment using detailed Danish event history data obtained from administrative registers. We find large positive …

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Experimental evidence on the nature of the Danish employment miracle

Rosholm, Michael - 2008

participation in unemployment spells - to assess the nature of labour market policy effectiveness. The experiment was conducted in … increases in the exit rate from unemployment ranging from 20 to 40%. When introducing time-varying indicators for the various … rate from unemployment, neither during the week in which the activity takes place, nor after the activity is completed …

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A Danish Profiling System

Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael; Hammer, Bo - 2004

her first six months in unemployment – enters the employment office for the first time, this model predicts whether he or …

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Employment and Wage Assimilation of Male First Generation Immigrants in Denmark

Husted, Leif; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Rosholm, Michael; … - 2000

Labour market assimilation of Danish first generation male immigrants is analysed based on two panel data sets covering the population of immigrants and 10% of the Danish population during 1984-1995. Wages and employment probabilities are estimated jointly in a random effects model which...

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The Times They are A-Changin'

Rosholm, Michael; Scott, Kirk; Husted, Leif - 2001

This article compares and contrasts male immigrant labor market experiences in Sweden and Denmark during the period 1985 - 1995. Using register-based panel data sets from Sweden and Denmark, a picture of the employment assimilation process of immigrants from Norway, Poland, Turkey, and Iran is...

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Structurally Dependent Competing Risks

Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2001

unemployment into either new job or recall. The recall probability is allowed to affect the search intensity for new jobs. …

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