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This paper examines the impact of an experiment in North Macedonia in which vulnerable unemployed individuals applying to a subsidized employment program were randomly selected to attend job interviews. Employers hiring a new employee from the target population receive a subsidy covering the...
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labour market conditions, the long-term unemployment rate is well above the OECD average. Therefore, the "carrot and stick … reducing long-term unemployment and long-term basic income receipt. An important element is an activation strategy for long …
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This paper addresses the question of why high unemployment rates tend to persist even after their proximate causes have …
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Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a...
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appears that the activation program is very effective. The median unemployment duration of the control group is 14 weeks …
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This paper studies the predictability of long-term unemployment (LTU) and analyzes its main determinants using rich … unemployed. Applying our prediction algorithm over the unemployment spell, we show that dynamic selection into LTU explains at …. Finally, we evaluate the implications of our findings for the value of targeting unemployment policies and how these change …
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Matching-type estimators using the propensity score are the major workhorse in active labour market policy evaluation. This work investigates if machine learning algorithms for estimating the propensity score lead to more credible estimation of average treatment effects on the treated using a...
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labor force participants between employment in a full time job and being on unemployment insurance benefits and considering …-time job compared to being on unemployment benefits. The effect of these financial disincentives is analyzed in simple reduced … form models of on-the-job search, unemployed search behavior, unemployment risk, and transitions out of the labor force. We …
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In this paper, we review the literature on the quot;spikequot; in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion … unemployment spells are measured has a large effect on the magnitude of the spike at exhaustion, both in existing studies and in … defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …
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This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment …. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into self-employment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the … measurement errors induced by the pseudo panel structure. We find that previous (long-term) unemployment significantly increases …
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