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This study investigates whether and to what extent further unemployment experience for youths who are already long-term unemployed imposes a penalty on subsequent labor market outcomes. We propose a flexible method for analyzing the effect on wages aside of transitions from unemployment and...
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Le plan d’accompagnement et de suivi des chômeurs introduit en juillet 2004 combine encouragements et menaces de sanctions. D’un côté, l’effort de recherche des chômeurs indemnisés est contrôlé plus étroitement et des sanctions sont prévues si cet effort est jugé insuffisant. De...
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Het Plan voor de Begeleiding en de Opvolging van werklozen, dat in juli 2004 in België werd ingevoerd, combineert stimuli en sancties. Enerzijds wordt het zoeken naar werk van uitkeringsgerechtigde werklozen nauwgezetter gecontroleerd en gesanctioneerd indien onvoldoende zoekinspanningen...
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Since July 2004 the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants is monitored in Belgium. We exploit the discontinuity in the treatment assignment at the age of 30 to evaluate the effect of a notification sent at least 8 months before job search is verified. The threat of...
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Ce numéro de Regards économiques présente les résultats d’une étude visant à déterminer si les employeurs flamands traitent de manière égale les candidatures à l’emploi des jeunes diplômés aux noms à consonance turque et à consonance flamande. La méthodologie de l’étude...
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En Belgique, le chômage des jeunes est structurellement plus élevé que dans de nombreux autres pays européens et touche particulièrement les jeunes peu qualifiés. Les causes principales de ce chômage structurel sont un coût du travail trop élevé en bas de l’échelle des salaires, un...
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This paper develops a partial equilibrium job search model to study the behavioral and welfare implications of an Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We show that, if the search requirements are well...
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This article decomposes the observed gaps in educational attainment and school-to-work transitions between grandchildren of natives and immigrants in Belgium into (i) differences in observed family endowments and (ii) a residual “pure ethnic gap”. It innovates by explicitly taking delays in...
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We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate as scheme that monitors job search effort and sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the unemployed to front-load search effort prior to...
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This study investigates whether young unemployed graduates who accept a job below their level of education accelerate or delay the transition into a job that matches their level of education. We adopt the Timing of Events approach to identify this dynamic treatment effect using monthly calendar...
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