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In-Work Benefits and the Nordic Model
Kolm, Ann-Sofie - 2013
Welfare benefits in the Nordic countries are often tied to employment. We argue that this is one of the factors behind the success of the Nordic model, where a comprehensive welfare state is associated with high employment. In a general equilibrium setting, the underlining mechanism works...
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Employing the Unemployed of Marienthal : Evaluation of a Guaranteed Job Program
Kasy, Maximilian; Lehner, Lukas - 2023
. At the municipality level, we find a large reduction of long-term unemployment, and no negative employment spillovers …
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How a Mandatory Activation Program Reduces Unemployment Durations : The Effects of Distance
Graversen, Brian Krogh - 2009
also find that the quality of the post-unemployment jobs was not affected by the activation program. Both findings confirm …
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Do Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed Affect Participants' Well-Being? A Rigorous Look at (Un-)Intended Consequences of Labor Market Policies
Caliendo, Marco - 2019
driven by negative effects on unemployment and retirement insurance coverage. Our heterogeneity analysis reveals substantial …
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Priority to Unemployed Immigrants? A Causal Machine Learning Evaluation of Training in Belgium
Cockx, Bart - 2020
We investigate heterogenous employment effects of Flemish training programmes. Based on administrative individual data, we analyse programme effects at various aggregation levels using Modified Causal Forests (MCF), a causal machine learning estimator for multiple programmes. While all...
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Counteracting Unemployment in Crises : Non-Linear Effects of Short-Time Work Policy
Gehrke, Britta - 2018
Short-time work is a labor market policy that subsidizes working time reductions among firms in financial difficulty to prevent layoffs. Many OECD countries have used this policy in the Great Recession. This paper shows that the effects of short-time work are strongly time dependent and...
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Labour Market Transitions, Shocks and Institutions in Turbulent Times : A Cross-Country Analysis
Bachmann, Ronald - 2018
of the unemployment rate and of worker transitions …
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Do Reemployment Programs for the Unemployed Work for Youth? Evidence from the Great Recession in the United States
Michaelides, Marios - 2020
We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI …
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Does Job Search Assistance Really Raise Employment?
Cottier, Lionel - 2018
lose employment faster, especially once eligible for new unemployment benefits. Job seekers assigned to JSA have similar …
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The Unemployment Impact of Product and Labour Market Regulation : Evidence from European Countries
Piton, Céline - 2018
This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using … set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is … effect: deregulation of state controls and in particular involvement in business operations tends to push up the unemployment …
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