The New Deal for Young People is the major welfare-to-work pro-gramme in the UK. It is a mandatory multistage policy targeted at 18- to 24-year-old unemployed people. This paper investigates the long-term effectiveness of the programme in terms of enhancing the (re-)employment probability of...

In this paper we estimate the causal effect of lowering the public income transfers administered to newly arrived refugee immigrants in Denmark - the so-called starthelp - using a competing risk mixed proportional hazard framework. The two competing risks are exit to job and exit out of the...

This paper reports the preliminary results of a randomised social experiment conducted by the Department of Family and Community Services involving approximately 5,000 Parenting Payment customers. Three samples of Parenting Payment customers were randomly selected. One sample was asked to...

The labour market in Estonia is volatile, increasing the risk that groups with some obstacles to enter the labour market (youth, non-Estonian speakers and workers with no upper secondary graduation certificate) may become long-term unemployed, due to the aggravating skills mismatch in the wake...

In this paper, we consider the impact of displacement (defined as separation from a stable job due to firm closure) in on workers in France. We find that a large share of displaced workers find new jobs without experiencing any interruption in their employment histories, and that falling into...

This Paper exploits area-based piloting and age-related eligibility rules to identify treatment effects of a labour market program – the New Deal for Young People in the UK. A central focus is on substitution/displacement effects and on equilibrium wage effects. The programme includes...

In this paper, we consider a simple model that integrates the component of the social network as a research method of workers as well as a method of recruitment policy by firms. Indeed, taking into account the social sphere is fundamental to understand the labor market dynamic in developing...