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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580552
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Under heavy pressure : intense monitoring and accumulation of sanctions for young welfare recipients in Germany
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2017
With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for welfare recipients aged younger than 25 years. For all types of non-compliance except for missing appointments, their basic cash benefit is withdrawn for three months. A second...
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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
the unemployment spell. This is confirmed by complementary analysis with individual survey data suggesting that online job … search leads to additional formal job interviews after a few months in unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011868793
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From giving birth to paid labor : the effects of adult education for prime-aged mothers
Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2014
Women without work after childbirth are at risk of losing their connection to the labor market. However, they may participate in adult education programs. We analyze the effect of this on the duration to work and on the wage rate, by applying conditional difference-in-differences approaches. We...
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Predicting re-employment : machine learning versus assessments by unemployed workers and by their caseworkers
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Kunaschk, Max; Lang, Julia; … - 2023
policy mix of unemployment insurance agencies. We analyze unique data on three sources of information on the probability of … re-employment within 6 months (RE6), for the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were …
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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
In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496735
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598126
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Predicting re-employment : machine learning versus assessments by unemployed workers and by their caseworkers
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Kunaschk, Max; Lang, Julia; … - 2023
the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were asked for their perceived probability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014438589
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Stepping-stones for the unemployed : the effect of temporary jobs on the duration until regular work
Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Heyma, … - 2004
Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from … unemployment to temporary jobs and unobserved determinants of the transition rates. The data contain multiple spells in labour … unemployment and they substantially increase the fraction of unemployed workers who have regular work within a few years after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575181