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Active Labor Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe: A Survey

Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...

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Business Cycles and Compositional Variation in U.S. Unemployment

Abbring, Jaap H.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan C. van - Tinbergen Institute - 1997

In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original … focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration …, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate out of unemployment have been investigated. Unlike the partial …

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Social Interactions in Unemployment

Lalive, Rafael - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …

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The effect of unemployment insurance sanctions on the transition rate from unemployment to employment

Abbring, Jaap H.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan C. van - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 1996

This paper analyzes the effect of unemployment insurance sanctions on the transition rate from unemployment to …als who started collecting unemployment insurance in the Netherlands in 1992. To deal with the selectivity of the occurrence …

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The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being

Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

Social norms are usually neglected in economics, because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to work and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The...

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The effect of unemployment insurance sanctions on the transition rate from unemployment to employment

Abbring, Jaap H.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan C. van - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 1996

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Business Cycles and Compositional Variation in U.S. Unemployment

Abbring, Jaap H.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan C. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 1997

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257090

Social Interactions in Unemployment

Lalive, Rafael - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

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The duration of unemployment in Russia

Grogan, Louise Anne; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 1999

This paper uses longitudinal survey data to assess factors affecting the duration of unemployment in Russia. We examine … remarkably similar across the different unemployment definitions and model specifications. Therefore, despite the formidable …

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How do extended benefits affect unemployment duration?: A regression discontinuity approach

Lalive, Rafael - 2006

This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks … regions to identify the effect of extended benefits on unemployment duration. Results indicate that the duration of job search … is prolonged by at least .09 weeks per additional week of benefits among men, whereas unemployment duration increases by …

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