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Evaluating public employment programs with field experiments : a survey of American evidence
O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2017
that paying unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to involuntarily jobless workers prolongs unemployment. However, some … scholars also reported estimates that the additional time spent in subsidized job search was productive. That is, UI receipt … investigated positive incentives to overcome the work disincentive effects of UI. These were followed by experiments in the 1990s …
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Impact of welfare sanctions on employment and benefit receipt : considering top-up benefits and indirect sanctions
Hohenleitner, Ingrid; Hillmann, Katja - 2019
This comprehensive study on UB-II-sanctions in Germany, applying PSM, presents the ex-post effects of welfare sanctions on several employment states for diverse (sub-)groups of employable welfare recipients. Besides unemployed, we also regard employed, and indirectly affected household members....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977249
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Impact of welfare sanctions on the quality of subsequent employment : wages, incomes, and employment stability
Hohenleitner, Ingrid; Hillmann, Katja - 2019
This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of sanction effects on post-welfare employment quality in Europe using the outcome variables daily wage, yearly income, and covering job stability with the durations of three employment states: employed, unemployed, and supplementary benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977328
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Labor market reforms in Europe : towards more flexicure labor markets?
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Wehner, Caroline - 2016
Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in important areas, including macro‐economic efficiency, workers' wellbeing and repercussions for social cohesion. European countries have started a new wave of labor market reforms...
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Modeling Financial Incentives to Get Unemployed Back to Work
van Ours, Jan C.; Boone, Jan - 2021
We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of individual unemployed workers are relevant, but also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321326
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Safety net or helping hand? : the effect of job search assistance and compensation on displaced workers
Fackler, Daniel; Stegmaier, Jens; Upward, Richard - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023
We provide the first systematic evidence on the effectiveness of a contested policy in Germany to help displaced workers. So-called “transfer companies” (Transfergesellschaften) employ displaced workers for a fixed period, during which time workers are provided with job-search assistance and...
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Modeling financial incentives to get unemployed back to work
Boone, Jan; Ours, Jan C. van - 2000
We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of individual unemployed workers are relevant, but also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001460511
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Modeling financial incentives to get unemployed back to work
Boone, Jan; Ours, Jan C. van - 2000
We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of individual unemployed workers are relevant, but also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318597
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Impact of benefit sanctions on unemployment outflow : evidence from German survey data
Hillmann, Katja; Hohenleitner, Ingrid - 2012
Similar to numerous other European countries, Germany's unemployment policy went through a paradigm shift towards activation policy by tightening their monitoring and sanction regime. In our study we examine the impact of benefit sanctions on the probability of getting employed or leaving the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009670947
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Impact of benefit sanctions on unemployment outflow : evidence from German survey data
Hillmann, Katja; Hohenleitner, Ingrid - 2012 - September 2012
Similar to many other European countries, Germany's unemployment policy made a paradigm shift towards activation policy with a tightened monitoring and sanction regime. In our analysis, we examine the impact of benefit sanctions on the probability of getting employed or leaving the labor force....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009611764