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This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment …
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Contracting out public services to private firms has ambiguous effects when quality is imperfectly observable. Using a randomized experiment over a national sample in France, we compare the efficiency of the public employment service (PES) vs. private providers in delivering very similar...
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The mild response of the German labor market to the worst global recession in post-war history appears as an economic miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to be a strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important factors that have contributed to this development...
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policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We performthe first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults … in France, exploiting a uniquelongitudinal dataset from the unemployment insurance system... …
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envisaged in other European countries, which hope that hours reductions will be an efficient policy for reducing unemployment. …
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since the 2001 French unemployment policy reform (PARE). Several of the schemes are dedicated at improving the quality of … assignment of workers to jobs. As a result, it is necessary to assess their impact on unemployment recurrence as well as … unemployment duration. Using duration models and a very rich data set, we can identify heterogenous and time-dependent causal …
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policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We perform the first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults … in France, exploiting a unique longitudinal dataset from the unemployment insurance system. Using the so-called timing … unemployment, but has a significant and positive effect on the duration of the subsequent employment spell. Accounting for training …
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of training for unemployed workers in France, using a rich register data set. Training has little impact on unemployment …
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This paper assesses the importance of reverse causality when evaluating the impact of training duration for unemployed workers. We use planned duration as an instrumental variable for actual duration. Our results suggest that the potential endogeneity of exits seems to be only relevant in the...
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Germany's recovery from an unemployment disease and its resilience to the Great Recession is remarkable. Its success …
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