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(Spillover) effects of labour market reforms in Germany and France
Fries, Claudia; Seymen, Atılım - 2013
countries - Germany and France - on the domestic and foreign economy. We test the implications of the gains in matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010432449
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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
In this paper we estimate by matching techniques the effects of a French retraining program on the reemployment rate of …. Our empirical analysis is based upon non-experimental data collected by the French Ministry of Labour. Matching estimates …. -- Evaluation ; retraining program ; displaced workers ; matching estimates …
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Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program on the Re-Employment Rate of Displaced Workers
Cavaco, Sandra - 2009
In this paper we estimate by matching techniques the effects of a French retraining program on the reemployment rate of …. Our empirical analysis is based upon non-experimental data collected by the French Ministry of Labour. Matching estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158616
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Analyzing the anticipation of treatments using data on notification dates
Crépon, Bruno; Jolivet, Grégory; Berg, Gerald J. van den - 2010
When treatments may occur at different points in time, most evaluation methods assume - implicitly or explicitly - that all the information used by subjects about the occurrence of a future treatment is available to the researcher. This is often called the "no anticipation" assumption. In...
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Do Labor Market Policies Have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment
Crepon, Bruno; Duflo, Esther; Gurgand, Marc; Rathelot, … - 2014
This paper reports the results from a randomized experiment designed to evaluate the direct and indirect (displacement) impacts of job placement assistance on the labor market outcomes of young, educated job seekers in France. We use a two-step design. In the first step, the proportions of job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014163132
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The Perverse Effects of Partial Labor Market Reform : Fixed Duration Contracts in France
Blanchard, Olivier J.; Landier, Augustin - 2008
Rather than decrease firing costs across the board, a number of European countries have allowed firms to hire workers on fixed-duration contracts. At the end of a given duration, these contracts can be terminated at little or no cost. If workers are kept on however, the contracts become subject...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014035982
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Youth unemployment in old Europe : the polar cases of France and Germany
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2013
France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be observed in Southern European countries, a "lost generation" may arise in France. In stark contrast, youth unemployment has been on continuous decline in Germany for many years,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009770651
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Youth unemployment in old Europe : the polar cases of France and Germany
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Rinne, Ulf; … - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be observed in Southern European countries, a “lost generation” may arise in France. In stark contrast, youth unemployment has been on continuous decline in Germany for many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010209725
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A tale of two countries : a story of the French and US polarization
Albertini, Julien; Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François - 2017
to that of the French economy. We then develop a multi-sectorial search and matching model with endogenous occupational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732027
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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives
Brown, Alessio J.G; Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2008
We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058461