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Marginal Wage Subsidies : A Redistributive Instrument for Employment Creation
Knabe, Andreas - 2006
Critics of marginal wage subsidies claim that their inter-firm displacement effects eliminate their employment and fiscal advantages over general wage subsidies. We develop a model in which we show that the contrary is correct. Inter-firm displacement with marginal subsidies forces down prices...
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Back to work : the long-term effects of vocational training for female job returners
Doerr, Annabelle - 2017
histories. Using the population of female job returners who receive a training voucher to participate in training courses and a … probability, monthly earnings and job quality. The results suggest that the receipt of a training voucher translates into a higher …
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‘Smart’ Employment Policy : The Tradable-Credits Approach to Full-Employment Targeting
Kang, Duyong - 2023
This paper discusses the idea of applying an artificial trading market approach, commonly used in environmental policy, to employment policy as a means of creating jobs more effectively. Artificial market approaches, as exemplified by the emission permits trading system, theoretically represent...
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'Smart' Employment Policy : The Employment Credit-Trading System
Kang, Duyong - 2023
The U.S. Federal Reserve System states the ultimate goals of its monetary policy to be full employment and price stability. Though they may not state it so explicitly, policymakers of most countries would also likely regard full employment as one of the chief goals of their economic policies....
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The award of a training voucher and labor market outcomes : conference paper
Doerr, Annabelle; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kruppe, Thomas; … - 2013
This paper estimates the labor market effects of being awarded with a training voucher using an instrumental variable …. Results suggest that on average voucher recipients suffer from strong lock-in effects and only experience at best small … positive employment effects and no earning gains four years after the award of the voucher. Subgroups of treated individuals …
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Dynamic evaluation of job search assistance
Kastoryano, Stephen; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2011
This paper evaluates a job search assistance program for unemployment insurance recipients. The assignment to the program is dynamic. We provide a discussion on dynamic treatment effects and identification conditions. In the empirical analyses we use administrative data from a unique...
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Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in West Germany
Osikominu, Aderonke; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Völter, Robert - 2006
Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on unique administrative data, this paper estimates the long-run differential employment effects of...
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Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in West Germany
Völter, Robert; Osikominu, Aderonke; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2007
Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on unique administrative data, this paper estimates the long-run differential employment effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297966
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Can job search assistance improve the labour market integration of refugees? : evidence from a field experiment
Battisti, Michele; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018
We conducted a field experiment to evaluate the impact of job-search assistance on the employment of recently arrived refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone...
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Jobcenters' strategies to promoting the inclusion of immigrant and native job seekers : a comparative analysis based on PASS survey data
Lehweß-Litzmann, René; Söhn, Janina - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-24
This paper comparatively analyzes strategies of German Jobcenters to bring native and immigrant job seekers into employment. It focuses on clients who receive means-tested basic income for the unemployed, based on data from the Panel Study Labour Market and Social Security (PASS) from year 2015...
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