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Counseling and Monitoring of Unemployed Workers: Theory and Evidence from a Controlled Social Experiment

van den Berg, Gerard J.; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2001

We investigate the effect of counseling and monitoring on the individual transition rate to employment. We theoretically analyze these policies in a job search model with two search channels and endogenous search effort. In the empirical analysis we use unique administrative and survey data...

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Monitoring job offer decisions, punishments, exit to work, and job quality

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Vikström, Johan - 2009

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search requirements are violated. We analyze the effect of sanctions on the ensuing job quality, notably on wage rates and hours worked, and we examine how often a sanction leads to a lower...

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The matching method for treatment evaluation with selective participation and ineligibles

Costa Dias, Monica; Ichimura, Hidehiko; van den Berg, … - 2008

The matching method for treatment evaluation does not balance selective unobserved differences between treated and non …, provide a natural application. In an empirical analysis, we first examine the performance of matching versus regression …, where compliance is imperfect among the young. Adjusting the matching estimator for selectivity changes the results towards …

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Active labor market policy effects in a dynamic setting

Crépon, Bruno; Ferracci, Marc; Jolivet, Grégory; van … - 2008

occur at any point in time. By relating the standard matching approach to the timing-of-events approach, it demonstrates … duration. The contamination of the standard matching estimator due to later entries into treatment is large if the treatment …

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The Knowledge Lift : The Swedish Adult Education Program That Aimed to Eliminate Low Worker Skill Levels

Albrecht, James; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Vroman, Susan - 2005

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift is unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably...

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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 - 2008

propensity score matching. We apply the method to the German ALMP system, using a novel data set including self …

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