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'Making Work Pay' in a Rationed Labor Market
Bargain, Olivier - 2006
earners), it is substantial for policies which affect groups with high shares of involuntary unemployment …
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The Effect of Active Labor Market Programs on Not-Yet Treated Unemployed Individuals
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Bergemann, Annette; Caliendo, Marco - 2021
Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects are hard to identify without model assumptions. We develop a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job-search behavioral outcomes, like the reservation wage,...
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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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The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany : A Microeconometric Evaluation
Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2021
In this paper we evaluate the employment effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Job creation schemes are a major element of active labour market policy in Germany and are targeted at long-term unemployed and other hard-to-place individuals. Access to very...
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New Evidence on the Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany - a Matching Approach with Threefold Heterogeneity
Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2021
This paper evaluates the effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Since previous empirical studies of these measures have been based on relatively small datasets and focussed on East Germany, this is the first study which allows to draw policy-relevant...
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Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality : A Regression-Discontinuity Approach
Caliendo, Marco - 2010
The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … the disincentive effect of UI on unemployment duration, UI benefit generosity may also increase job match quality by …
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