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The effect of vocational employment training on the individual transition rate from unemployment to work
Richardson, Katarina; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2002
Amongst the active labor market policy programs for the unemployed in Sweden, the vocational employment training program is the most ambitious and expensive. We analyze its effect on the individual transition rate from unemployment to employment using a unique set of administrative data and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572134
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The IZA Evaluation Dataset:Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making
Caliendo, Marco; Falk, Armin; Kaiser, Lutz C.; … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
The evaluation of labor market policies has become an important issue in many Europeancountries. In recent years, a …. Therefore, information that might be relevantfor economic modeling is often absent. The IZA Evaluation Dataset aims to overcome … sampling andcontents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset and outlines the future development.... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360557
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Do Stepping Stone Jobs exist? Early Career Paths in the Medical Profession
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Holm, Anders; Ours, Jan C. van - Tinbergen Institute - 1999
In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have to enrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for a position as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept a temporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504947
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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 - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005451414
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Measuring the equilibrium effects of unemployment benefits dispersion
Vuuren, Aico van; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ridder, Geert - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 1999
We analyze the impact of unemployment benefits and minimum wages using an equilibrium search model which allows for dispersion of benefits and productivity levels, job-to-job transitions, and structural and frictional unemployment. The estimation method uses readily available aggregate data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005451429
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Combining micro and macro unemployment data
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 1998
We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005451529
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Using firm data to assess the performance of equilibrium search models of the labor market
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vuuren, Aico van - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 2000
Equilibrium search models are useful tools for the evaluation of labor market policies. Recently developed equilibrium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010822644
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Does work experience help to become a medical specialist?
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Holm, Anders; Ours, Jan C. van - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 1999
In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have to enrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for a position as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept a temporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro dataset to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010782262
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Combining micro and macro unemployment data
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 1998
We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010782825
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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 - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010782994