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Interactions between employment and training policies

Oskamp, Frank; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007

This paper examines the interactions between employment and training policies. Their effectiveness in stimulating income may be interdependent for various important reasons. For example, the more employment policies stimulate the employment rate, the greater the length of time over which workers...

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Az aktív munkaerő-piaci programokba kerülés esélyei: képzés, bértámogatás, közhasznú munka

Galasi, Péter (contributor); Nagy, Gyula (contributor) - 2008

The paper investigates exit probabilities of registered unemployed to active labour market programmes using administrative records from the unemployment register of the Hungarian National Labour Centre. We estimate parametric duration models that summarise variation in exit probabilities with...

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Evaluating the dynamic employment effects of training programs in East Germany using conditional difference-in-differences

Bergemann, Annette (contributor); … - 2005

This study analyzes the employment effects of training in East Germany. We propose and apply an extension of the widely used conditional difference-in-differences evaluation method. Focusing on transition rates between nonemployment and employment we take into account that employment is a state...

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Estimating the effect of a retraining program on the re-employment rate of displaced workers

Cavaco, Sandra; Fougère, Denis; Pouget, Julien - 2009

workers by proposing them retraining and job seeking assistance for a period of six months beginning just after the dismissal …

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Optimal use of labor market policies : the role of job search assistance

Wunsch, Conny - 2010

This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is … measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … role of job search assistance is to delay or prevent situations in which it is no longer optimal to incentivize the worker …

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Employment effects of the provision of specific professional skills and techniques in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); … - 2005

Based on unique administrative data, which has only recently become available, this paper estimates the employment effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into...

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The effectiveness of targeted wage subsidies for hard-to-place workers

Jaenichen, Ursula; Stephan, Gesine - 2007

Targeted wage subsidies paid to employers are an important element of active labour market policies in Germany. This paper uses propensity score matching to investigate their effect on subsidised hard-to-place workers. In a first scenario, we estimate the average treatment effect of a subsidy on...