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Unanticipated Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program
Das, Tirthatanmoy; Polachek, Solomon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
participation and unemployment. CPFL enables workers to take at most six weeks of paid leave over a 12 month period in order to bond … women's labor force participation and unemployment. We find that the labor force participation rate, the unemployment rate …, and the duration of unemployment among young women rose in California compared to states that did not adopt paid family …
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The Effects of Youth Employment: Evidence from New York City Summer Youth Employment Program Lotteries
Gelber, Alexander; Isen, Adam; Kessler, Judd B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Programs to encourage labor market activity among youth, including public employment programs and wage subsidies like the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, can be supported by three broad rationales. They may: (1) provide contemporaneous income support to participants; (2) encourage work experience...
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Sharpening the Effectiveness of Natural Experiments as an Analytical Tool
Duleep, Harriet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The importance of using natural experiments in economic research has long been recognized. Yet, it is only in recent years that natural experiments have become an integral part of the economist's analytical toolbox, thanks to the efforts of Meyer, Card, Peters, Krueger, Gruber, and others. This...
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Job practice: an evaluation and a comparison with vocational labour market training programmes
Forslund, Anders; Liljeberg, Linus; von Trott zu Solz, Leah - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2013
practice with labour market training, we get the somewhat paradoxical result that job practice participants would have gained … more from training, while the training participants would have gained equally much from both programmes. A re-shuffling of …
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L’impact des politiques d’exonérations territoriales : méthodes d’évaluation et résultats
Havet, Nathalie - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2012
Cet article propose une revue de la littérature sur l’efficacité des expériences de politiques d’éxonérations ou d’allègements de charges sociales ciblées sur les territoires aux Etats-Unis et en France. Elle montre que leurs résultats sont mitigés en termes de créations nettes...
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Основные направления развития трудового потенциала в условиях рынка труда Сибири
Karpov, Valery - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper is devoted to the peculiarities of the Siberian labor market regulation, including the deepening of market segmentation based on several criteria: the availability of alternative forms of employment; different rates of release and quality of employees; qualifications of employees;...
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Pensionamento flessibile e (ri)equilibrio tra generazioni
Salerno, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The paper proposes a method to speed up the transition toward the notional contributions pension system in Italy. It seems the most appropriate manner to combine and pursue employment and financial sustainability goals. The method computes percentages for abating the old retributive pensions...
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Evaluar para mejorar: el caso del programa Hogares Comunitarios de Bienestar del ICBF
González, José Luis; Durán, Iván Mauricio - In: REVISTA DESARROLLO Y SOCIEDAD (2012)
El objetivo de este artículo es mostrar cómo las evaluaciones de políticas públicas, en particular las evaluaciones de impacto, pueden constituir insumos importantes para la toma de decisiones de parte de los hacedores de política y, por ende, para el mejoramiento de las intervenciones...
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Unintended Consequences of Childcare Regulation in Chile: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Villena, Mauricio G.; Sanchez, Rafael; Rojas, Eugenio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In several countries governments fund childcare provision, but in many others it is privately funded as labour regulation mandates that firms have to provide childcare services. For this latter case, there is no empirical evidence on the effects generated by the financial burden of childcare...
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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
randomly selected. One sample was asked to voluntarily undergo an interview with a Jobs, Education, and training (JET) adviser …
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