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Do case workers help the unemployed? : evidence for making a cheap and effective twist to labor market policies for unemployed workers

Rosholm, Michael - 2014

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries spend, on average, an equivalent of 0.4% of their gross domestic product on active and passive labor market policies. This is a non-negligible sum, especially in times of strained government budgets. Meetings with case workers -...

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Are public or private providers of employment services more effective? : evidence from a randomized experiment

Rehwald, Kai; Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2015

This paper compares the effectiveness of public and private providers of employment services. Reporting from a randomized field experiment conducted in Denmark we assess empirically the case for contracting out employment services for a well-defined group of highly educated job-seekers...

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The Cyclicality of the Stepping-Stone Effect of Temporary Agency Employment

Jahn, Elke J. - 2018

, we estimate in-treatment and post-treatment effects and their relationship to the aggregate unemployment rate. We find … use agency employment as a screening device when unemployment is low. Moreover, the positive post-treatment effect is … noticeably larger in periods of high unemployment, indicating that workers might be activating networks they established while in …

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Estimating the Threat Effect of Active Labour Market Programmes

Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2021

. The threat effect is shown to reduce average unemployment duration by approximately three weeks. The implications of this …

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Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants, Part Ii : Empirical Evidence

Damm, Anna Piil; Rosholm, Michael - 2021

concentration of fellow countrymen and decreasing in the regional unemployment rate, the size of the local population and the … unemployment. Second, on average, geographical mobility had large, positive effects on the job finding rate, suggesting that either …

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Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants, Part I : Theory

Damm, Anna Piil; Rosholm, Michael - 2021

This paper formulates a partial search model in which unemployed individuals simultaneously search for job and location of residence. Most importantly, we show that, ceteris paribus, a decrease in current place utility increases the transition rate into a new location of residence and the...

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The Employment Effects of Active Social Policy

Bolvig, Iben; Jensen, Peter; Rosholm, Michael - 2021

We analyse the effects of active social policy (ASP) on the dynamics of welfare dependence. We evaluate the impact of various ASP measures (employment and training) on the duration of welfare spells and subsequent employment spells, based on data from Denmark. The results show that employment...

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The cyclicality of the stepping-stone effect of temporary agency employment

Jahn, Elke J.; Rosholm, Michael - 2018

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Estimating the Threat Effect of Active Labour Market Programmes

Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2008

. The threat effect is shown to reduce average unemployment duration by approximately three weeks. The implications of this …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217231

Employment effects of dispersal policies on refugee immigrants

Damm, Anna Piil (contributor); Rosholm, Michael (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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