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Private Job Placement Services - a Microeconometric Evaluation for Germany

Winterhager, Henrik - 2008

In recent years, coinciding with the discussion led in many OECD countries, Germany has started to contract out placement services for the unemployed to private agencies. Whereas in the Netherlands and Australia the whole system of employment services was reorganized at once, making an...

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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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The effect of hiring subsidies on regular wages

Moczall, Andreas - 2015

What happens to the wages of regular workers in establishments subsidized with hiring subsidies? Does hiring programme participants result in windfalls that are distributed among regular workers? Do these reduce their wage demands to avoid being substituted by subsidized workers? Using linked...

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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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Dynamic Evaluation of Job Search Assistance

Kastoryano, Stephen - 2011

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Do financial incentives for training and caseworker meetings enhance re-employment?

Kyyrä, Tomi; Verho, Jouko - 2025

In 2005, displaced workers in Finland with at least three years of work history were given the option to enroll in a Re-employment Program. Participants met with a caseworker at the beginning of their unemployment and drafted an employment plan. In return, they became eligible for higher...

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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 based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation measures such as monitoring and job search assistance...

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Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies : The Role of Job Search Assistance

Wunsch, Conny - 2010

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You'll never seek alone : the impact of active labour market policies on finding a job

Arranz, José M.; García-Serrano, Carlos - In: Journal for labour market research 58 (2024) 1, pp. 1-19

Using the administrative records of the Spanish Public Employment Service for the period 2018-2019, we analysed the impact of participation in job search assistance and training programmes on the chances of unemployed jobseekers finding employment, as well as the quality of the job obtained....

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