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van den Berg, Gerard J.; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2013

sanctions for young unemployed welfare recipients based on German administrative data. The German welfare system is particularly …

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Long term unemployment and violent crimes - using post-2000 data to reinvestigate the relationship between unemployment and crime

Almén, Daniel; Nordin, Martin - 2011

Abstract This study reinvestigates the relationship between unemployment and crime. By being the first study to use … long-term unemployment, it contributes unique findings. Moreover, with a Swedish panel consisting of 288 municipalities and … show that long-term unemployment exhibits a strong association with violent crimes in addition to property crimes …

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Fixed-term and permanent employment contracts: Theory and evidence

Cao, Shutao; Shao, Enchuan; Silos, Pedro - 2010

This paper constructs a theory of the coexistence of fixed-term and permanent employment contracts in an environment with ex ante identical workers and employers. Workers under fixed-term contracts can be dismissed at no cost while permanent employees enjoy labor protection. In a labor market...

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How Important is Employment Protection Legislation for Foreign Direct Investment Flows in Central and Eastern European Countries?

Leibrecht, Markus; Scharler, Johann - 2007

The purpose of this paper is to investigate empirically the importance of labor market conditions and in particular of employment protection legislation as a determinant of bilateral Foreign Direct Investment flows to seven Central and Eastern European countries. Although our results indicate...

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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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Sickness Absence and Search Unemployment

Holmlund, Bertil - 2004

The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … unemployed worker may prefer nonparticipation if the disutility of search is amplified by sickness. The decisions governing labor … force transitions are influenced by social insurance benefits available for sick or unemployed workers. We examine how these …

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Vacancy matching and labor market conditions

Stadin, Karolina - 2012

This paper studies the probability of filling a vacancy, how it varies with the number of unemployed and number of … vacancies in the local labor market, and what impact it has on employment. A greater availability of unemployed workers should … unemployment has a weak positive effect on the probability of filling a vacancy, while the number of vacancies in the local labor …

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Product market imperfections and employment dynamics

Carlsson, Mikael; Eriksson, Stefan; Gottfries, Nils - 2011

How important is imperfect competition in the product market for employment dynamics? To investigate this, we formulate a theoretical model of employment adjustment with imperfect competition in the product market, search frictions, and convex adjustment costs. From this model, we derive a...

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The aggregate labor market effects of the Swedish knowledge lift program

Albrecht, James; van den Berg, Gerard; Vroman, Susan - 2008

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...

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Active labor market policy effects for women in Europe: A survey

Bergemann, Annette; van den Berg, Gerard - 2007

We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...

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