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The matching method for treatment evaluation with selective participation and ineligibles
Costa Dias, Monica; Ichimura, Hidehiko; van den Berg, … - 2008
, we exploit the age eligibility restriction in the Swedish Youth Practice subsidized work program for young unemployed …
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Swedish youth labour market policies revisited
Forslund, Anders; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2006
different policy regimes currently in use. Results suggest that youth policies are more effective than the policies covering … relative efficiency of youth programmes and general adult programmes which are available also for the young. The results … indicate that youth programmes are significantly less effective than adult oriented programmes. Overall, the evidence thus …
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Matching frictions and distorted beliefs: Evidence from a job fair experiment
Abebe, Girum; Caria, Stefano A.; Fafchamps, Marcel; … - 2023
We evaluate the impacts of a randomized job-fair intervention in which jobseekers and employers can meet at low cost. The intervention generates few hires, but it lowers participants' expectations and causes both firms and workers to invest more in search as predicted by a theoretical model;...
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The intergenerational effects of parental incarceration
Dobbie, Will; Grönqvist, Hans; Niknami, Susan; Palme, … - 2019
We estimate the causal effects of parental incarceration on children's short- and long-run out-comes using administrative data from Sweden. Our empirical strategy exploits exogenous varia-tion in parental incarceration from the random assignment of criminal defendants to judges with different...
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Urban public works in spatial equilibrium: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia
Franklin, Simon; Imbertand, Clément; Abebe, Girum; … - 2023
, Ethiopia. We find that the program increased public employment and reduced private labor supply among beneficiaries and …
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Job search with bidder memories
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Menzio, Guido; Smith, Eric - 2009
This paper revisits the no-recall assumption in job search models with take-it-or-leave-it offers. Workers who can recall previously encountered potential employers in order to engage them in Bertrand bidding have a distinct advantage over workers without such attachments. Firms account for this...
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The labor market consequences of gender differences in job search
Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - 2008
This paper studies gender differences in labor market outcomes using data from an Internetbased CV database. The women in the database get fewer firm contacts than men, and we show that this is partly explained by differences in education, experience and other skills, is not explained by...
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The causal impact of social connections on firms' outcomes
Eliason, Marcus; Hensvik, Lena; Kramarz, Francis; … - 2017
The paper studies how social connections affect firm-level hiring decisions and performance. We characterize the social connections of firms' employees using register data and for causal identification we use job displacements, which create directed positive shocks towards connected firms by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039332
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Vacancy referrals, job search and the duration of unemployment: A randomized experiment
Engström, Per; Hesselius, Patrik; Holmlund, Bertil - 2009
One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies; another goal is to monitor job search so as to bring search efforts among the unemployed in line with search requirements. The referral of job seekers to vacancies is one...
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The determinants and consequences of unemployed workers' wage demands
Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - 2010
This paper studies the determinants and labor market consequences of unemployed workers' wage demands using direct data on the workers' actual wage requests. Our results show that most workers want a wage close to what they earned in their previous jobs, and thus much more than they get in...
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