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Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave
Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2020
We study the short, medium, and long run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program, which had paid benefits for up to two years, was replaced by an earnings related transfer, which paid...
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Empirical Monte Carlo evidence on estimation of Timing-of-Events models
Lombardi, Stefano; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vikström, Johan - 2020
approach provides accurate effect estimates, especially if time-varying variation in the unemployment rate of the local labor …
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Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers: a randomized controlled field experiment in Germany
Berg, Gerard J. van den; 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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Active labor market policies
Crépon, Bruno; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2016
Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have been published. In this review, we critically assess policy effectiveness. We emphasize insights from recent randomized...
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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
Berg, Gerard J. van den; 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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To work or not to work? : effects of temporary public employment on future employment and benefits
Mörk, Eva; Ottosson, Lillit; Vikman, Ulrika - 2021
an increase in the share receiving unemployment insurance benefits. This tendency is especially pronounced for the …
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The impact of participation in job creation schemes in turbulent times
Bergemann, Annette; Pohlan, Laura; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2017
. Additional results, however, suggest that female and highly skilled participants leave unemployment quicker than other groups …
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Do digital information technologies help unemployed job seekers find a job? : evidence from the broadband Internet expansion in Germany
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Diegmann, André; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2018
results show that high-speed internet improves reemployment rates after the first months in unemployment. This is confirmed by … interviews after a few months in unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951922