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Dynamic Evaluation of Job Search Assistance
Kastoryano, Stephen - 2011
This paper evaluates a job search assistance program for unemployment insurance recipients. The assignment to the … microeconometric evaluation estimators. All estimators find that the job search assistance program reduces the exit to work, in …
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Unemployment and Subsequent Employment Stability : Does Labour Market Policy Matter?
Wulfgramm, Melike - 2013
This paper analyses the effect of unemployment insurance generosity and active labour market policy on reemployment stability in Europe. Using EU‐SILC and OECD data, we conduct discrete time survival analyses with shared frailty specification to identify policy effects at the micro and macro...
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Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program on the Re-Employment Rate of Displaced Workers
Cavaco, Sandra - 2009
workers by proposing them retraining and job seeking assistance for a period of six months beginning just after the dismissal …
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Does Job Search Assistance Really Raise Employment?
Cottier, Lionel - 2018
We study how job search assistance (JSA) affects employment in a randomized pilot study with long run administrative … data. JSA increases employment in the first year after assignment. In the second year, when most job seekers have left JSA … job finding and employment loss transitions. Job seekers assigned to JSA find employment faster but, once employed, also …
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Mitigating long-term unemployment in Europe
Miyamoto, Hiroaki; Suphaphiphat, Nujin - In: IZA journal of labor policy 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-27
While unemployment rates in Europe declined after the global financial crisis until 2018/2019, the incidence of long-term unemployment, the share of people who have been unemployed for 1 year to the total unemployed, remained high. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic could aggravate the long-term...
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How effective are hiring subsidies in reducing long-term unemployment among prime-aged jobseekers? : evidence from Belgium
Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - In: IZA journal of labor policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-38
effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a triple-difference methodology, the hiring subsidy is shown to increase the job …
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Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies : The Role of Job Search Assistance
Wunsch, Conny - 2010
This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is … measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … role of job search assistance is to delay or prevent situations in which it is no longer optimal to incentivize the worker …
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Evaluating the Dynamic Employment Effects of Training Programs in East Germany Using Conditional Difference-in-Differences
Bergemann, Annette; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - 2021
This paper evaluates the effects of Public Sponsored Training in East Germany in the context of reiterated treatments. Selection bias based on observed characteristics is corrected for by applying kernel matching based on the propensity score. We control for further selection and the presence of...
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The Effects of Vocational Training Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Eastern Germany
Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Zeiss, Christopher - 2021
This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany. We use information from administrative data of the Federal Employment Office. To allow for observable and possible unobservable influences we apply a multivariate mixed...
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End-of-Year Spending and the Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2017
This study re-estimates the employment effects of training programs for the unemployed using exogenous variation in participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In addition to estimating complier effects with...
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