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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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Monitoring job offer decisions, punishments, exit to work, and job quality
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vikström, Johan - 2009
Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search requirements are violated. We analyze the effect of sanctions on the ensuing job quality, notably on wage rates and hours worked, and we examine how often a sanction leads to a lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879359
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Duration dependence versus unobserved heterogeneity in treatment effects : Swedish labor market training and the transition rate to employment
Richardson, Katarina (contributor);  … - 2008
is small. -- vocational training ; program evaluation ; duration analysis ; selectivity bias ; dynamic treatments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003709720
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Monitoring job offer decisions, punishments, exit to work, and job quality
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vikström, Johan - 2009
Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search requirements are violated. We analyze the effect of sanctions on the ensuing job quality, notably on wage rates and hours worked, and we examine how often a sanction leads to a lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003874151
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Estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects on hazard rates
Gaure, Simen; Røed, Knut; Berg, Gerard J. van den; … - 2010
duration. -- Duration analysis ; unobserved heterogeneity ; program evaluation ; nonparametric estimation ; Monte Carlo …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941767
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Under heavy pressure : intense monitoring and accumulation of sanctions for young welfare recipients in Germany
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung - 2015
Mit der Einführung der Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende im Jahr 2005 wurde in Deutschland ein System von Sanktionen implementiert, das für Arbeitslosengeld(ALG)-II-Bezieher im Alter von unter 25 Jahren besonders starke Leistungsminderungen nach sich ziehen kann. In unserem...
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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...
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Combining micro and macro unemployment duration data
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - 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/10011299970
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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 - 1999
In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have toenrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for aposition as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept atemporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to...
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