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An Economic Analysis of Exclusion Restrictions for Instrumental Variable Estimation

van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2007

Instrumental variable estimation requires untestable exclusion restrictions. With policy effects on individual outcomes, there is typically a time interval between the moment the agent realizes that he may be exposed to the policy and the actual exposure or the announcement of the actual...

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Predicting Re-Employment: Machine Learning versus Assessments by Unemployed Workers and by Their Caseworkers

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Kunaschk, Max; Lang, Julia; … - 2023

policy mix of unemployment insurance agencies. We analyze unique data on three sources of information on the probability of … re-employment within 6 months (RE6), for the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were …

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Structural Empirical Analysis of Vacancy Referrals with Imperfect Monitoring and the Strategic Use of Sickness Absence

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Foerster, Hanno; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2023

care system on unemployment durations. We estimate that for around 25% of unemployed workers, removing the channel that … enables strategic sick reporting reduces the mean unemployment duration by 4 days. …

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Predicting re-employment: Machine learning versus assessments by unemployed workers and by their caseworkers

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Kunaschk, Max; Lang, Julia; … - 2024

), for the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were asked for their perceived probability …

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Predicting re-employment: Machine learning versus assessments by unemployed workers and by their caseworkers

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Kunaschk, Max; Lang, Julia; … - 2023

the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were asked for their perceived probability of …

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Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labor Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogeneous Production Technologies

van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2003

It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with search frictions and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the...

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Stepping Stones for the Unemployed : The Effect of Temporary Jobs on the Duration until Regular Work

Zijl, Marloes; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Heyma, Arjan - 2004

Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from … unemployment to temporary jobs and unobserved determinants of the transition rates. The data contain multiple spells in labour … unemployment and they substantially increase the fraction of unemployed workers who have regular work within a few years after …

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The Knowledge Lift : The Swedish Adult Education Program That Aimed to Eliminate Low Worker Skill Levels

Albrecht, James; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Vroman, Susan - 2005

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift is unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably...

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Empirical Labor Search: A Survey

Eckstein, Zvi; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2003

This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual characteristics. The starting points of the literature are...

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Monitoring job offer decisions, punishments, exit to work, and job quality

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Vikström, Johan - 2009

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …

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