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-western immigrants in Denmark who receive social assistance. We use the timing-of-events duration model and rich administrative data. We … other programmes. Effects are larger if programmes begin after six months of unemployment. Implications of our estimates are … illustrated by calculating effects on the duration to regular employment over a five-year period. …
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In this paper we analyze empirically different specifications of a sample selection model. We are interested in how the estimates vary across alternative assumptions concerning the joint conditional distribution of the sample selection equation errors, such us the specification of error...
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The crises of the past few years have led to a significant increase in youth unemployment in Europe. This, in turn, has … highlighted the long-standing phenomenon of well above average youth unemployment. In some countries, the youth unemployment rate … reached unprecedented levels, although the rise of unemployment among young people was no more significant than among adults …
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for the design of selected labor market policies including unemployment compensation, employment services and job search … assistance, and job training. -- behavioral economics ; unemployment insurance ; job training ; job search …
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; migration ; unemployment models ; duration ; incidence ; job search …This study aims to examine the characteristics of unemployment and migration of labor in the Northeastern of Thailand … and to study the unemployment problems faced by local workers. The samples used in the study were 455 unemployed workers …
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This paper presents a case study on reforming a very dysfunctional labor market with a deep insider-outsider divide, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary employees, makes real reform much harder, and leads to purely marginal changes that do not alter...
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unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings. We also analyze whether displaced workers are more likely to be in informal … costs as additional outcomes. Displaced migrant workers do not encounter losses in terms of longer unemployment spells or … migrants among the displaced experience a lowered incidence of self-employment. Also, health costs and psychic costs can be …
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We examine two impacts of international emigration on the evolution of the institutions in the origin countries. The first impact concerns the influence of emigration per se (i.e. people who left the country can voice more or less from abroad). The second impact relates to the transfer of the...
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receiving unemployment benefits. This paper evaluates the targeting performance and welfare impacts of the program. The paper …
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