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Do the higher educated unemployed crowd out the lower educated ones in a competition for jobs?
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2002
flow data out of unemployment containing information on the level of educational attainment of the worker, but not on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412393
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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Unemployed Youths—Beware of Spillovers
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244086
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Do the Higher Educated Unemployed Crowd Out the Lower Educated Ones in a Competition for Jobs?
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2021
flow data out of unemployment containing information on the level of educational attainment of the worker, but not on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320462
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Effectiveness of a job vacancy referral scheme
Bollens, Joost; Cockx, Bart - In: IZA journal of labor policy 6 (2017) 15, pp. 1-24
The public employment service (PES) makes use in many countries of vacancy referrals as to facilitate the matching between unemployed workers and vacancies. Based on a “timing-of-events” approach to control for selective participation, this study evaluates whether this policy instrument...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820623
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Labour Costs and the Decision to Hire the First Employee
Cockx, Bart; Desiere, Sam - 2023
Firms without paid employees account for up to 80% of all firms, but only a small minority ever hires. This paper investigates the relationship between labour costs and the decision to hire a first employee and become an employer. Leveraging a unique policy in Belgium that permanently reduced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356485
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Labour Costs and the Decision to Hire the First Employee
Cockx, Bart; Desiere, Sam - 2023
Firms without paid employees account for up to 80% of all firms, but only a small minority ever hires. This paper investigates the relationship between labour costs and the decision to hire a first employee and become an employer. Leveraging a unique policy in Belgium that permanently reduced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350677
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Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether … conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits for education-leavers on age or schooling attainment can affect … educational achievements. The results show that the prospect of financial loss in case of unemployment can significantly raise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080047
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Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether … conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits for education-leavers on age or schooling attainment can affect … educational achievements. The results show that the prospect of financial loss in case of unemployment can significantly raise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080120
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How effective are hiring subsidies in reducing long-term unemployment among prime-aged jobseekers? Evidence from Belgium
Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-38
Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers older than 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014553713
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How Effective Are Hiring Subsidies to Reduce Long-Term Unemployment among Prime-Aged Jobseekers? Evidence from Belgium
Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - 2021
Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882343