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The COVID-19 pandemic led to significant economic disruptions, prompting many governments to implement short-time employment aid (STEA) to mitigate job losses and income reductions. This study examines the effectiveness of STEA in the short and long term in Europe among workers aged 50 and...
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This paper investigates a unique policy designed to maintain employment during the privatization of East German firms after the fall of the Iron Curtain. The policy required new owners of the firms to commit to employment targets, with penalties for non-compliance. Using a dynamic model, we...
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infer from this that there is potential for wage-push inflation. However, real wages are falling rapidly at present and …, prior to that, real wages had been stagnant for some time. We show that unemployment is not key to understanding wage … and those out of the labor force who are not working significantly reduce wage pressures in the United States. This …
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This paper studies the impact of active labour market programs for institutionally distinct Indigenous populations in Canada using administrative data on the universe of participants in the Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy (ASETS). Within Indigenous population groups, we...
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places in the vocational training program and by the minimum wage. Second, it helps to determine what can be. learned from … conclude that whether or not limitations on enrollments In vocational programs and minimum wages influence the wage difference …
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This paper decomposes the participation process of a prototypical program into eligibility, awareness, application, acceptance and enrollment. With this decomposition, we determine the sources of unequal participation for different groups, and demonstrate that variables often have very different...
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The recent literature on evaluating manpower training programs demonstrates that alternative nonexperimental estimators of the same program produce a array of estimates of program impact. These findings have led to the call for experiments to be used to perform credible program evaluations....
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This chapter considers means-tested employment and training programs in the United States. We focus in particular on large, means-tested federal programs, including the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), its successor the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), that program's recent replacement, the...
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This paper empirically assesses the wage effects of the Job Corps program, one of the largest federally-funded job … is difficult to study because of sample selection, a pervasive problem in applied micro-econometric research. Wage rates …
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evidence of lower employment, wage earnings, or self-employment in either state, as well as among defendants with no prior …
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