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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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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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The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school starting age continue into adulthood. Based on data on math...
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This paper evaluates the impact of a massive expansion of after-school programs (ASPs) on the labor market participation of mothers with primary school children in the West German context of relatively low full-time employment rates. Using an instrumental variables approach we exploit regional...
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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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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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on the job finding rate but we find mixed effects in terms of post-unemployment wages. …
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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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whether severe household indebtedness is driven by trigger events such as unemployment, childbirth, divorce, or the death of … are likely to cause severe household indebtedness. Unemployment also worsens the relative debt situation mainly due to the …
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This study focuses on the long term eff ects of unemployment on subjective wellbeing in a family context for 17-24 year … old sons living with at least one parent, using data from the German SOEP. As fathers enter unemployment, sons‘ subjective … sons, this suggests even higher true costs of unemployment than previously thought. -- Life satisfaction ; unemployment …
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