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courses, job search assistance and monitoring, subsidized employment, and public work programs. For policy makers, it is of … their effectiveness in practice. Overall, the findings with respect to employment outcomes are only partly promising. While … impact of ALMP on furthering education participation as well as employment quality is scarce, requiring additional research …
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The transition process from unemployment to employment is determined by the reservation wage and the search effort of … search behaviour and the transition process into employment. The dataset consists of a large inflow sample into unemployment … time as well as realised transitions into employment. Personality traits, ethnicity and social networks are part of the …
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Turning unemployment into self-employment is a suitable alternative to traditional active labor market policies in many … especially interesting for people whose work is undervalued in paid employment or in situations where job offers are limited …
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both schemes can be considered as effective: Throughout, we find higher employment rates for participants in comparison to … other non-subsidized unemployed individuals; participants additionally achieve higher incomes. The induced employment …
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The promotion of self-employment as part of active labour market policy ranks as one of the most important support …
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the German Federal Employment Agency with innovative survey data to study the out-mobility of individuals to work. This …
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The reaction of the German labor market to the Great Recession 2008/09 was relatively mild - especially compared to other countries. The reason lies not only in the specific type of the recession - which was favorable for the German economy structure - but also in a series of labor market...
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Unemployment in Europe is excessively high on average, and is divergent across countries and population groups within countries. On the one hand, over the past decades, national governments have implemented incomplete institutional reforms to amend dysfunctional labor markets. On the other hand,...
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Large immigration flows during the 1995-2007 period increased the weight of foreigners living in Spain to 12 % of the total population. The rapid increase in unemployment associated with the Great Recession and the subsequent European debt crisis, substantially changed migration flows, so that,...
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This paper presents a case study on reforming a very dysfunctional labor market with a deep insider-outsider divide, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary employees, makes real reform much harder, and leads to purely marginal changes that do not alter...
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