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Do youth employment programs improve labor market outcomes? : a systematic review

Kluve, Jochen; Puerto, Susana; Robalino Aguirre, David A.; … - 2016

This study reviews the evidence on the labor market impact of youth employment programs. We analyze the effectiveness of interventions, and factors that influence program performance including country context, target beneficiaries, program design, implementation, and evaluation type. We identify...

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Governmental policies to reduce unemployment during recessions : insights from an ABM

Bauermann, Tom - 2020

the generosity of unemployment benefits (UB) and short-time work. This paper aims to contribute to the theoretical … unemployment benefits and increasing search efforts, b) a fiscal stimulus and c) short-time work. In contrast to other studies that … from the heterogeneity of agents. I find four main results: 1) a) has nearly no effect on unemployment in the short run and …

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Labour market dynamics and worker heterogeneity during the Great Recession : evidence from Europe

Bachmann, Ronald; Bechara, Peggy; Kramer, Anica; … - 2014

temporary employment, to unemployment were the main factor behind the rise in unemployment; while reduced unemployment outflows … did not contribute substantially to the increase in unemployment during the early phase of the crisis. …

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The intensive and extensive margin of European labour supply

Frings, Hanna; Schaffner, Sandra - 2011

Labour supply is determined by two factors: the participation of workers in the labour market (extensive margin), and the number of hours supplied by those working (intensive margin). Based on the European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS), we analyse which margin is more decisive in...

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Labor market reforms and current account imbalances : beggar-thy-neighbor policies in a currency union?

Baas, Timo; Belke, Ansgar - 2014

Member countries of the European Monetary Union (EMU) initiated wideranging labor market reforms in the last decade. This process is ongoing as countries that are faced with serious labor market imbalances perceive reforms as the fastest way to restore competitiveness within a currency union....

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Current account balances and structural adjustment in the euro area

Zemanek, Holger; Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther - 2010

In the past decade, a set of euro area countries has accumulated large current account deficits. After a brief relaxation of the euro area internal imbalances in the wake of the financial crisis, it appears as if this pattern arises anew when times normalize again and Germany still sticks to...

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Wage bargaining and labor market policy with biased expectations

Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2024

Recent research documents mounting evidence for sizable and persistent biases in individual labor market expectations. This paper incorporates subjective expectations into a general equilibrium labor market model and analytically studies the implications of biased expectations for wage...

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Automation, offshoring, and the role of public policies

Schmidpeter, Bernhard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2019

on the job finding rate but we find mixed effects in terms of post-unemployment wages. …

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Husband’s unemployment and wife’s labor supply : the added worker effect across Europe

Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian; Rulff, Christian - 2014

This paper investigates the responsiveness of women’s labor supply to their husband’s loss of employment – the so-called added worker effect. While previous empirical literature on this topic mainly concentrates on a single country, we take an explicit internationally comparative...

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Start me up : how fathers’ unemployment affects their sons’ school-to-work transitions

Kind, Michael - 2015

paternal unemployment delays sons’ school-to-work transitions and thus leads to a spell of early career non-employment. The … results show that substantial delaying effects of fathers’ unemployment exist and that they are heterogeneous among … educational groups. Therefore, paternal unemployment implies long-run intergenerational costs by hindering sons’ smooth school …

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