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The impact of sanctions for young welfare recipients on transitions to work and wages and on dropping out

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2019

The reintegration of young welfare recipients into the labor market is a major policy goal in many European countries. In this context monitoring and sanctions are important policy tools. In this paper, we analyze the impact of strict sanctions on job search outcomes for young welfare recipients...

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Predicting re-employment: Machine learning versus assessments by unemployed workers and by their caseworkers

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Kunaschk, Max; Lang, Julia; … - 2023

the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were asked for their perceived probability of …

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Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers: A randomized controlled field experiment in Germany

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Hofmann, Barbara; Stephan, Gesine - 2021

Integration Agreement (IA) are contracts between the employment agency and the unemployed, nudging the latter to comply with rules on search behavior. We designed and implemented an RCT involving thousands of newly unemployed workers, randomizing at the individual level both the timing of the IA...

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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2017

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante threat of sanctions. Based on a large inflow sample into unemployment … unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We estimate multispell …

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