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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries spend, on average, an equivalent of 0.4% of their gross domestic product on active and passive labor market policies. This is a non-negligible sum, especially in times of strained government budgets. Meetings with case workers -...
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focus is to explore how the conditions in the pre-displacement firm affect the duration of unemployment. The empirical … spent in unemployment. The heterogeneity of the signalling effect across various employee subgroups in the economy is also … and in particular by the conditions in the firms in which they were previously employed. -- unemployment duration …
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focus is to explore how the conditions in the pre-displacement firm affect the duration of unemployment. The empirical … spent in unemployment. The heterogeneity of the signalling effect across various employee subgroups in the economy is also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780037
While job search theory predicts that active labour market policies (ALMPs) can affect post-unemployment outcomes … unemployment spell. We use a social experiment, which was conducted in Denmark in 2005-6, to investigate the effects of a dramatic … duration dependence to separately identify "indirect" (via shorter unemployment duration) and "direct" (through a more …
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her first six months in unemployment - enters the employment office for the first time, this model predicts whether he or …
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her first six months in unemployment - enters the employment office for the first time, this model predicts whether he or …
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In this paper, we investigate the impact of classroom training programmes on individual unemployment rates in Denmark … significantly increases individual unemployment rates. We discuss some possible reasons for this surprising finding and some related …
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unemployment to employment using detailed Danish event history data obtained from administrative registers. We find large positive …
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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 analyze the effects of four randomized social experiments, involving early and intensive active labour market policy, conducted in Denmark in 2008. The experiments entailed different combinations of early and intensive treatment in terms of meetings and active labour market programmes. The...
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