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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011583770
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214516
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406816
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014501268
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137059
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373206
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Bridge unemployment in Germany : response in labour supply to an increased early retirement age
Giesecke, Matthias; Kind, Michael - 2013
risk of leaving the state unemployment into employment or into early retirement due to exceptional rules. We find a … early due to exceptional rules is not affected. -- Labour supply ; retirement behaviour ; old age unemployment ; duration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722390