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We analysed a new counselling and support programme for people with low employment prospects in Austria. The Austrian … Public Employment Service introduced regional pilots to investigate whether a new counselling strategy could improve labour … market outcomes for this group. Eligible unemployed individuals could opt for third-party counselling and support, access a …
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In a randomised controlled trial in Austria, lowering caseloads for caseworkers in a Public Employment Office led to more meetings with unemployed clients, more job offers, more programme assignments, and more sanctions for noncompliance with job search requirements. It shortened unemployment...
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This paper provides a new perspective in classifying ALMPs depending on their main objective, also in light of their relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, during a crisis, and during recovery. We distinguish ALMPs that provide incentives for retaining employment, incentives for...
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employment office closure. The Government's objective was to replace traditional face-to-face employment counselling with modern … online counselling and simultaneously generate savings in outlays. The reform created natural experiment circumstances that … allowed us to estimate the aggregate causal effects of face-to-face counselling and advice. We estimated the effects of the …
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support for Amendment 1 falls as mobility in other parts of the city increases. This finding suggests that Amendment 1 was … viewed as a way for high-mobility voters to shift the tax burden back to low-mobility homeowners. In addition, support is …
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market. They are also more likely to start a self-employment activity. As a consequence of this upward mobility their income …
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The importance of a focus on mobility and the kilometres travelled using light duty vehicles is reflected in the … persistence of strong demand for personal mobility and emissions that tend to be linked with population and economic growth … notable impact on investments in alternate transport options. As a result, different mobility futures have notably different …
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The expansion of higher education in theWestern countries has been accompanied by a marked widening of wage differentials and increasing overqualification. While the increase in wage differentials has been attributed to skill-biased technological change that made advanced skills scarce, this...
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The expansion of higher education in the Western countries has been accompanied by a marked widening of wage differentials and increasing over-qualification. While the increase in wage differentials has been attributed to skill-biased technological change that made advanced skills scarce, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295296
This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two … ways. First, we examine the correlation between training and mobility. In a second step, we consider wage effects of …
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