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Munch, Jakob Roland - 2004

This paper investigates the effects of home-ownership on labour mobility and unemployment duration. We distinguish … between home-ownership and unemployment duration. Our empirical findings thus lend some support for the main mechanism behind … the so-called Oswald hypothesis, even if it does not find positive correlation between unemployment duration and home …

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Rent Control and Unemployment Duration

Svarer, Michael - 2004

on the effect of rent control on the length of individual unemployment duration. Theoretically, the effect is ambiguous …

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Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Early Meetings and Activation

Pedersen, Jonas Maibom; Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2012

We analyze the effects of four randomized experiments involving intensive active labour market policy, conducted in Denmark in 2008. The interventions consisted of early and frequent meetings and activation programmes. The effects are remarkable; frequent meetings between newly unemployed workers...

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Testing for Additive Outliers in Seasonally Integrated Time Series

Gautier, Pieter; Svarer, Michael; Teulings, Coen - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2005

Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners than in rural areas. Singles are therefore prepared to pay a premium in terms of higher housing prices. Once married, the marriage market benefits disappear while the housing...

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Estimating Equilibrium Effects of Job Search Assistance

Gautier, Pieter; Muller, Paul; Klaauw, Bas van der; … - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2012

Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there are no spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that this assumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers. Using a difference-in-difference model e show that the...

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Can Active Labour Market Policies Combat Youth Unemployment?

Maibom Pedersen, Jonas; Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Active labour market policies (ALMPs) may play an important role in preventing an increase in long-term unemployment … evidence on the effectiveness of ALMPs as a way of fighting youth unemployment using results from a randomised controlled trial …

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Marriage and the City

Gautier, Pieter A.; Svarer, Michael; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In citiessingles can meet more potential partners than in rural areas. Singles are thereforeprepared to pay a premium in terms of higher housing prices. Once married, themarriage market benefits disappear while the housing...

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Sin City?

Gautier, Pieter A.; Svarer, Michael; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

Is moving to the countryside a credible commitment device for couples? Weinvestigate whether lowering the arrival rate of potential alternative partners bymoving to a less populated area lowers the dissolution risk for a sample of Danishcouples. We find that of the couples who married in the...

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A Statistical Programme Assignment Model

Svarer, Michael; Rosholm, Michael; Staghøj, Jonas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

duration of unemployment spells may result if a statistical programme assignment model is introduced. We discuss several issues …

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Short- and long-term unemployment: How do temporary layoffs affect this distinction?

Jensen, Peter; Svarer, Michael - In: Empirical Economics 28 (2003) 1, pp. 23-44

In this paper, we provide new evidence on how to model unemployment durations in the presence of temporary layoffs. Two …

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