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Regional unemployment structure and new firm formation
Audretsch, David B.; Dohse, Dirk; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2014
Does regional unemployment increase or rather decrease entrepreneurial activity? Although this question has been hotly debated among researchers for decades the answers yielded so far are ambiguous and inconclusive. The paper proposes an innovative approach that takes not only interregional...
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Long-term unemployment and subsidizing vacancies in a growth-matching model
Birk, Angela - 2001
Wie kann die Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit durch geeignete Politikmaßnahmen des Staates reduziert werden? In diesem Artikel … Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit impliziert. Da der positive aus der Vakanzsubventionierung resultierende Substitutionseffekt den negativen … Staat mit Hilfe der Subventionierung von Vakanzen, eine Verringerung der Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit erreichen. …
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The impact of labour market reforms and economic performance on the matching of short-term and long-term unemployed
Klinger, Sabine; Rothe, Thomas - 2010
Als Reaktion auf die hohe und persistente Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland wurde zwischen 2003 und 2005 die umfangreichste Reform des Arbeitsmarktes und der Sozialordnung seit Gründung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland umgesetzt. In der Studie analysieren wir, ob die Reformen und ihr Zusammenwirken...
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The secular rise in unemployment insurance exhaustions and what can be done about it
Smith, Ralph E. - 2011
Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before they have found jobs, even in a strong labor market, has been gradually rising. For example, in 1973, 27.4 percent of UI recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a...
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Stuck in a trap? : long-term unemployment under two-tier unemployment compensation schemes
Nagl, Wolfgang; Weber, Michael - 2016
We empirically investigate how two-tier unemployment compensation schemes affect the profile of re-employment hazards. We exploit the aggravation of an existing two-tier scheme in Germany in 2005 and estimate its impact on re-employment rates at different durations. For the short-term...
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Should Local Public Employment Services Be Merged with the Local Social Benefit Administrations?
Holzner, Christian - 2011
The German Federal government has allowed some regions (Approved Local Providers) to be solely responsible for the care of long-term unemployed. The remaining regions had to form Joint Local Agencies, where the local social benefit administrations work together with the local public employment...
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Income Support Policies for Part-Time Workers : A Stepping-Stone to Regular Jobs? An Application to Young Long-Term Unemployed Women in Belgium
Cockx, Bart - 2007
We verify whether an income support policy for part-time workers in Belgium increases the transition from unemployment to non-subsidised, regular employment. Using a sample of 8630 long-term unemployed young women, whose labour market history is observed from 1998 to 2001, we implement the...
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Should local public employment services be merged with the local social benefit administrations?
Holzner, Christian; Munz, Sonja - 2011
The German Federal government has allowed some regions (Approved Local Providers) to be solely responsible for the care of long-term unemployed. The remaining regions had to form Joint Local Agencies, where the local social benefit administrations work together with the local public employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130222
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Do job creation schemes improve the social integration and well-being of the long-term unemployed?
Ivanov, Boris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlan, Laura - 2019
In this paper we analyze the effects of a German job creation scheme (JCS) on the social integration and well-being of long-term unemployed individuals. Using linked survey and administrative data for participants and a group of matched non-participants, we find significant positive effects of...
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Active labour market policies : what works for the long-term unemployed?
Eppel, Rainer; Huemer, Ulrike; Mahringer, Helmut; … - 2024
There is still a lack of knowledge on how to effectively help the long-term unemployed into employment. We evaluate a wide range of active labour market policies for this target group, using a dynamic matching approach. Measures vary considerably in the extent to which they improve labour market...
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