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Investing efficiently in education and active labour market policies in Slovakia
Klein, Caroline - 2013
In Slovakia, educational outcomes are below the OECD average and are too dependent on the socioeconomic background of students. Unemployment is high and the school-to-job transition process does not work well. Spending on education and active labour market policies are very low by international...
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Agenda 2020 : Strategien für eine Politik der Vollbeschäftigung
Schneider, Hilmar; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
Mit diesem Strategiepapier zeigt das Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) Wege auf, wie Deutschland in der vor uns liegenden Dekade wieder Vollbeschäftigung erreichen kann. Die "Agenda 2010" hat die Arbeitsmarktentwicklung erkennbar in die richtige Richtung bewegt und für ein neues Denken...
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Agenda 2020 : strategies to achieve full employment in Germany
Schneider, Hilmar; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
This strategy paper by the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) shows ways in which Germany once more can attain full employment in the coming decade. Much of what the previous government's "Agenda 2010" has put into motion has clearly steered labor market development in the right direction....
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Improving employment prospects for young workers in Spain
Wölfl, Anita - 2013
The unemployment rate among young people has reached painfully high levels, in particular among those young people with low levels of education. There are two crucial policy priorities to improve employment prospects for youth in Spain. First, in the very short term, there is need for quick...
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The Effects of Vocational Training Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Eastern Germany
Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Zeiss, Christopher - 2021
This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany. We use information from administrative data of the Federal Employment Office. To allow for observable and possible unobservable influences we apply a multivariate mixed...
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Is there a labour market mismatch in Estonia? : measuring regional, occupational and industrial labour market mismatch
Ferraro, Simona; Kommer, Pauline - In: Baltic journal of economics 23 (2023) 2, pp. 200-228
-2021. We apply the search and matching theory and the mismatch index framework, and our findings show that around 4-5 per cent …
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Mitigating long-term unemployment in Europe
Miyamoto, Hiroaki; Suphaphiphat, Nujin - In: IZA journal of labor policy 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-27
, labor market matching efficiency, and labor market policies are associated with the incidence of long-term unemployment …
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The Effect of the Hartz Labor Market Reforms on Post-Unemployment Wages, Sorting, and Matching
Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020
wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post …
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A Statistical Programme Assignment Model
Staghoej, Jonas; Svarer, Michael; Rosholm, Michael - 2021
When treatment effects of active labour market programmes are heterogeneous in an observable way across the population, the allocation of the unemployed into different programmes becomes a particularly important issue. In this paper, we present a statistical model designed to improve the present...
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Do active labour market policies for welfare recipients in Germany raise their regional outflow into work? : a matching function approach
Wapler, Rüdiger; Wolf, Katja; Wolff, Joachim - 2018
outcomes, much fewer studies are concerned with effects of these policies on the regional matching-process between job seekers … can improve the matching efficiency. We analyse quarterly panel data of German job centres in the period 2006 to 2011 and … matching-function framework by applying the system generalized methods of moments estimator. Our results point to positive …
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