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The Aggregate Labor Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program

Albrecht, James; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vroman, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of lowskill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...

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The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in The Netherlands

van Ours, Jan C.; Veenman, Justus - 2001

and Morocco and immigration from the former Dutch colony of Surinam. Immigrants have a weak labor market position, which … is related to their educational level and language skills. Children and grandchildren of immigrants are expected to have … educational attainment of second generation immigrants from Turkey, Morocco, Surinam and the Dutch Antilles. …

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Unemployment of Non-western Immigrants in the Great Recession

Cerveny, Jakub; van Ours, Jan C. - 2013

-western immigrants. In combination our findings suggest that the Great Recession did not have a different impact on the unemployment of …This paper examines whether unemployment of non-western immigrant workers in the Netherlands was disproportionally … affected by the Great Recession. We analyze unemployment data covering the period November 2007 to February 2013 finding that …

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Do Active Labor Market Policies Help Unemployed Workers to Find and Keep Regular Jobs?

van Ours, Jan C. - 2000

This paper uses an administrative dataset to analyze to what extent active labor market policies in the Slovak Republic have been beneficial for unemployed workers. The focus is on two types of temporary subsidized jobs and on training. Short-term subsidized jobs seem to be the most efficient...

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Revisiting Okun's Relationship

Dixon, Robert; Lim, Guay C.; van Ours, Jan C. - 2016

Our paper revisits Okun's relationship between observed unemployment rates and output gaps. We include in the … unemployment rate) over time. The Okun coefficient is not only different for young, prime-age and older workers, it decreases with … reducing the overall unemployment rate, it will also have the distributional effect of lowering youth unemployment. …

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Active Labor Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe: A Survey

Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...

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Gielen, Anne C.; Kerkhofs, Marcel J. M.; van Ours, Jan C. - 2006

This paper uses information from a panel of Dutch firms to investigate the labor productivity effects of performance related pay (PRP). We find that PRP increases labor productivity at the firm level with about 9% and employment with about 5%.

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How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment

Lalive, Rafael; van Ours, Jan C.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2004

This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance – the benefit replacement rate (RR …) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the …

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The Impact of Active Labor Market Programs and Benefit Entitlement Rules on the Duration of Unemployment

Zweimüller, Josef; van Ours, Jan C.; Lalive, Rafael - 2000

Swiss policy makers created a unique link between unemployment benefits and Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) by … making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of … Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we …

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Nonparametric Estimation of a Dependent Competing Risks Model for Unemployment Durations

van den Berg, Gerard J.; van Lomwel, A. Gijsbert C.; … - 2003

In this paper we simultaneously analyze transitions from unemployment to employment and to nonparticipation. We … and unobserved heterogeneity terms. We use a unique population data set of French unemployment over the period 1988 …

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