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Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael; Hammer, Bo - 2008

We describe the statistical model used for profiling new unemployed workers in Denmark. When a worker - during his or her first six months in unemployment - enters the employment office for the first time, this model predicts whether he or she will be unemployed for more than six months from...

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Estimating the Threat Effect of Active Labour Market Programmes

Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2008

We combine two techniques to consistently estimate the effect of active labour market programmes and, in particular, active labour market policy regimes. Our aim is to explicitly estimate the threat effect of active labour market programmes. Based on Danish data (1998-2002) from administrative...

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Approval of Equal Rights and Gender Differences in Well-Being

Lalive, Rafael; Stutzer, Alois - 2004

Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for … women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens? approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss … constitution as a proxy for the norm that ?women and men shall have the right to equal pay for work of equal value?. We find that …

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The Success of Job Applications : A New Approach to Program Evaluation

Falk, Armin; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2004

In this paper, we suggest a novel approach to program evaluation that allows identification of the causal effect of a training program on the likelihood of being invited to a job interview under weak assumptions. The idea is to measure the program-effects by pre- and posttreatment data that are...

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Estimating the Threat Effect of Active Labour Market Programmes

Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2004

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A Danish Profiling System

Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael; Hammer, Bo - 2004

We describe the statistical model used for profiling new unemployed workers in Denmark. When a worker – during his or her first six months in unemployment – enters the employment office for the first time, this model predicts whether he or she will be unemployed for more than six months from...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262159

Beschäftigung Älterer in Deutschland: der unvollständige Paradigmenwechsel

Eichhorst, Werner - 2006

Despite a sequence of labor market reforms in recent years, employment of older workers in Germany is still lower than in many other European countries. The paper explains this by institutional factors that affect labor supply, labor demand and matching, i.e. labor market regulation, human...

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Dann waren's nur noch vier ... Wie viele (und welche) Maßnahmen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik brauchen wir noch? Eine Bilanz nach der Evaluation der Hartz-Reformen

Eichhorst, Werner; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007

With the Hartz reforms active labor market policies in Germany were overhauled considerably. The paper reviews the recent evaluation findings and draws some conclusion for the future setup of active labor market policies in Germany. It argues in favor of a streamlined repertoire of active labor...

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The gradual transformation of continental European labor markets: France and Germany compared

Eichhorst, Werner - 2007

Germany and France are both Continental European welfare states with severe labor market problems such as low employment and high and persistent unemployment which can be explained by labor market institutions that inhibit labor market adaptability. This paper analyzes recent reforms in core...

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The effect of sanctions on the job finding rate: evidence from Denmark

Svarer, Michael - 2007

This paper investigates the effect of sanctions of unemployment insurance benefits on the exit rate from unemployment for a sample of Danish unemployed. According to the findings are that even moderate sanctions have rather large effects. For both males and females the exit rate increases by...

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