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Monitoring Job Offer Decisions, Punishments, Exit to Work, and Job Quality
den Berg, Gerard J van; Vikström, Johan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528530
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Active Labor Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe: A Survey
Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703577
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What Drives Job Search? Evidence from Google Search Data
Baker, Scott; Fradkin, Andrey - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2011
The large-scale unemployment caused by the Great Recession has necessitated unprecedented increases in the duration of … unemployment insurance (UI). While it is clear that the weekly payments are beneficial to recipients, workers receiving benefits … changes in the distribution of unemployment benefit duration. We find that search activity is greater when a claimant's UI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019875
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On the Efficiency of Job Search with Social Networks
Cahuc, Pierre; Fontaine, François - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefits hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566458
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On the Efficiency of Job Search with Social Networks
Cahuc, Pierre; Fontaine, François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefit hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792237
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Active Labour Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe - A Survey
Bergemann, Annette; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labour market policies on individual labour market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662001
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The Aggregate Labor Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program
Albrecht, James; Berg, Gerard van den; Vroman, Susan - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 12 (2009) 1, pp. 129-146
The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085572
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Scale Effects in Markets with Search
Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003
Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may miss important scale effects at the micro level, because of the reactions of job searchers. A semi-structural model is developed and estimated on a British sample, testing for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016877
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The Aggregate Labour Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program
Albrecht, James; den Berg, Gerard J van; Vroman, Susan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997--2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labour market outcomes. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123553
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They seek it here, they seek it there, they seek it everywhere. But where is employment found?
Boman, Anders - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008
search geographically do have a higher probability of escaping unemployment. However, this positive effect is not only … likelihood of escaping unemployment, but mainly differences in unobservable characteristics between those who choose to use a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423924