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Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there are no spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that this assumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers. Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...
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Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there are no spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that this assumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers. Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388151
Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there areno spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that thisassumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers.Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326233
transition rate into a new location of residence and the transition rate into employment outside the local labour market, but … decreases the transition rate into local employment. Thus, a decrease in current place utility decreases the overall job …
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Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there are no spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that this assumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers. Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287653
Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there are no spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that this assumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers. Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570135
In this paper, we specify and estimate a structurally dependent competing risks model for the transitions out of unemployment into either new job or recall. The recall probability is allowed to affect the search intensity for new jobs.
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This paper compares the effectiveness of public and private providers of employment services. Reporting from a randomized field experiment conducted in Denmark we assess empirically the case for contracting out employment services for a well-defined group of highly educated job-seekers...
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We investigate the effects of meetings between the unemployed and their case workers on the transition rate from … effects of meetings. The transition rate strongly increases in the week the meeting is held, and this effect persists for some … the transition rate to work does not depend on the timing of the meeting. …
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