for the design of selected labor market policies including unemployment compensation, employment services and job search …

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 … analyses reveal highly significant and strongly negative effects of benefit sanctions on the quality of post-welfare employment …

theoretical training in Côte d'Ivoire. We set up an experiment that simultaneously randomized whether interested youths were … subsidized apprentice. The subsidy offsets forgone labor earnings. Four years after the start of the experiment, treated youths … expand access to training, upgrade skills and improve earnings for youths without crowding out traditional apprentices. …

Wages and statutory pension claims are connected via the German social insurance system. This dissertation analyzes … unemployment risks on individual wages are analyzed in chapter 2. Building on a portfolio model for the labor market, the effects … compensation has an adverse effect on wages. In West Germany the effect is increasing with the level of qualification. The risk of …

as a pedagogical tool. The corresponding life skills training component is combined with a technical component teaching … vocational skills. To our knowledge, this is the first paper to rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of a training program … short-run treatment effects on a comprehensive set of outcomes including employment and earnings as well as measures of …

as a pedagogical tool. The corresponding life skills training component is combined with a technical component teaching … vocational skills. To our knowledge, this is the first paper to rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of a training program … short-run treatment effects on a comprehensive set of outcomes including employment and earnings as well as measures of …

workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be … to all low-wage earners regardless of their employment history and are of limitless duration. Our analysis indicates that …

Specialized Employment Survey 1998-2001, we estimate a quasi-experimental difference-in-difference model. We find that this … permanent hiring. We also find a negative association between reinstatements and real wages of 3.9 %, but placebo tests indicate … policy to increase permanent hiring and wages. …

-displacement wage. Using rich and accurate data on workers’ employment patterns before and after displacement, we compare the earnings … and employment outcomes of displaced workers who entered transfer companies with those that did not. Workers can choose … and IV estimates indicate that the use of a transfer company has a positive and significant effect on employment rates …

of vocational training on monthly earnings, skills matching, and self-employment. Substantial heterogeneity emerges as … only observed at the intensive margin and do not lead to higher employment or earnings outcomes. …