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Youth unemployment and active labor market policies in Europe
Caliendo, Marco; Schmidl, Ricarda - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 1, pp. 1-30
courses, job search assistance and monitoring, subsidized employment, and public work programs. For policy makers, it is of … job search assistance (with and without monitoring) results in overwhelmingly positive effects, we find more mixed effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416888
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Youth unemployment and active labor market policies in Europe
Caliendo, Marco; Schmidl, Ricarda - 2015 - Forthcoming in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015
courses, job search assistance and monitoring, subsidized employment, and public work programs. For policy makers, it is of … job search assistance (with and without monitoring) results in overwhelmingly positive effects, we find more mixed effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387111
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Optimal use of labor market policies: the role of job search assistance
Wunsch, Conny - 2010
This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is … measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … role of job search assistance is to delay or prevent situations in which it is no longer optimal to incentivize the worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269430
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Evaluating the dynamic employment effects of training programs in East Germany using conditional difference-in-differences
Bergemann, Annette (contributor);  … - 2005
This study analyzes the employment effects of training in East Germany. We propose and apply an extension of the widely used conditional difference-in-differences evaluation method. Focusing on transition rates between nonemployment and employment we take into account that employment is a state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003287503
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Estimating the effect of a retraining program on the re-employment rate of displaced workers
Cavaco, Sandra; Fougère, Denis; Pouget, Julien - 2009
workers by proposing them retraining and job seeking assistance for a period of six months beginning just after the dismissal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860913
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Optimal use of labor market policies : the role of job search assistance
Wunsch, Conny - 2010
This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is … measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … role of job search assistance is to delay or prevent situations in which it is no longer optimal to incentivize the worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940543
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Employment effects of the provision of specific professional skills and techniques in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor);  … - 2005
Based on unique administrative data, which has only recently become available, this paper estimates the employment effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003299995
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The effectiveness of targeted wage subsidies for hard-to-place workers
Jaenichen, Ursula; Stephan, Gesine - 2007
Targeted wage subsidies paid to employers are an important element of active labour market policies in Germany. This paper uses propensity score matching to investigate their effect on subsidised hard-to-place workers. In a first scenario, we estimate the average treatment effect of a subsidy on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873105
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The effects of active labor market programs in Germany : an investigation using different definitions of non-treatment
Stephan, Gesine - 2008
,5 Jahren an keiner Maßnahme der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik teilgenommen haben ("joining versus never in any program"). Ein …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873948
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Optimal use of labor market policies : the role of job search assistance
Wunsch, Conny - 2009
This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is … measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … role of job search assistance is to delay or prevent situations in which it is no longer optimal to incentivize the worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923505