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The New Deal for Young People five years on
Georgi, Giacomo de - In: Fiscal Studies 26 (2005) 3, pp. 371-383
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...
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Reducing Income Transfers to Refugee Immigrants: Does Starthelp Help You Start?
Rosholm, Michael; Vejlin, Rune M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
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...
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Matching Skills and Jobs in Estonia
Demmou, Lilas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
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...
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Stick, Carrot and Skill Acquisition
Filges, Trine; Larsen, Birthe - Økonomisk Institut, Copenhagen Business School - 2001
the impact of YUPs on skill division, unemployment distribution workers and aggregate unemployment. …
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The Impact of Yputh Unemployment Policy
Filges, Trine; Larsen, Birthe - Økonomisk Institut, Copenhagen Business School - 2001
This paper examines the impact on unemployment, unemployment distribution, wages and welfare of Youth Unemployment …
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The labour market plans of parenting payment recipients: information from a randomised social experiment
Barrett, Garry F.; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 4, 3, pp. 192-205
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...
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The Effects of Employment Action.
Pratten, C.; Ryan, P. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 1995
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Worker Displacement in France.
Margolis, D.N. - 2000
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...
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Evaluating the Employment Impact of a Mandatory Job Search Programme
Blundell, Richard William; Costa Dias, Monica; Meghir, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
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...
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Labour Market Reform in Germany: How to Improve Effectiveness
Wurzel, Eckhard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
High levels of unemployment and rising social charges have lead to considerable pressure on labour markets to adjust … significant disincentives for labour supply of older people and spouses, which should be eliminated. Unemployment related benefits … Public Employment Service should continue. On the labour demand side, there remains scope to raise the efficiency of Germany …
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