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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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Job Search, Locus of Control, and Internal Migration

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hennecke, Juliane - 2015

Internal migration can substantially improve labor market efficiency. Consequently, policy is often targeted towards reducing the barriers workers face in moving to new labor markets. In this paper we explicitly model internal migration as the result of a job search process and demonstrate that...

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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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Youth Unemployment and Active Labor Market Policies in Europe

Caliendo, Marco; Schmidl, Ricarda - 2015

Since the economic crisis in 2008, European youth unemployment rates have been persistently high at around 20% on …

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Earnings Exemptions for Unemployed Workers: The Relationship between Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Quality

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016

analyze the unemployment dynamics of job seekers with and without marginal employment, we consider an inflow sample into … unemployment and estimate multivariate duration models. While we do not find any significant impact on the job finding probability … probability of marginal employment at the beginning of the unemployment spell and an increased job finding probability for the …

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Marginal employment, unemployment duration and job match quality

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2012

incentives due to higher net earnings. Additional earnings during unemployment might lead to higher reservation wages prolonging … the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh …

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Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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The Intended and Unintended Effects of Promoting Labor Market Mobility

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Mahlstedt, Robert - 2022

Subsidizing the geographical mobility of unemployed workers may improve welfare by relaxing their financial constraints … and allowing them to find jobs in more prosperous regions. We exploit regional variation in the promotion of mobility … mobility - as intended - causes job seekers to increase their search radius, apply for and accept distant jobs. At the same …

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Mobility Assistance Programmes for Unemployed Workers, Job Search Behaviour and Labour Market Outcomes

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Mahlstedt, Robert - 2017

reducing unemployment leads to industrialised countries offering financial support to unemployed job seekers when searching for … and/or accepting jobs in distant regions. In this paper, we investigate the impact of the existence of these mobility … radius causes a higher geographical mobility and hence higher employment probabilities and wages. …

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