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Do Digital Information Technologies Help Unemployed Job Seekers Find a Job? Evidence from the Broadband Internet Expansion in Germany

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Diegmann, André; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2018

This paper studies effects of the introduction of a new digital mass medium on reemployment of unemployed job seekers. We combine data on high-speed (broadband) internet availability at the local level with individual register data on the unemployed in Germany. We address endogeneity by...

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Do Digital Information Technologies Help Unemployed Job Seekers Find a Job? Evidence from the Broadband Internet Expansion in Germany

Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2018

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Do active labour market policies for welfare recipients in Germany raise their regional outflow into work? : a matching function approach

Wapler, Rüdiger; Wolf, Katja; Wolff, Joachim - 2018

outcomes, much fewer studies are concerned with effects of these policies on the regional matching-process between job seekers … can improve the matching efficiency. We analyse quarterly panel data of German job centres in the period 2006 to 2011 and … matching-function framework by applying the system generalized methods of moments estimator. Our results point to positive …

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Active labor market policies

Crépon, Bruno; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2016

Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have been published. In this review, we critically assess policy effectiveness. We emphasize insights from recent randomized...

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Active labor market policies

Crépon, Bruno; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2016

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Labor Market Policy Evaluation in Equilibrium : Some Lessons of the Job Search and Matching Model

Cahuc, Pierre; Le Barbanchon, Thomas - 2021

We analyze the consequences of counseling provided to job seekers in a standard job search and matching model. It turns …

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The lockdown impact on unemployment for heterogeneous workers

Kandoussi, Malak; Langot, François - 2020

We develop a multi-sectoral matching model to predict the impact of the lockdown on the US unemployment, considering …

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A field experiment on labor market speeddates for unemployed workers

Klaauw, Bas van der; Ziegler, Lennart - 2019

We conduct a field experiment to evaluate the effectiveness of labor market speeddates where unemployed workers meet temporary employment agencies. Our analysis shows that participation in such events increases immediate job finding by 6-7 percentage points. In the subsequent months, employment...

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Active labour-market policies in Germany : do regional labour markets benefit?

Wapler, Rüdiger; Werner, Daniel; Wolf, Katja - 2014

deals with the question whether ALMP improves the matching-process between job-seekers and vacancies and thus increases the … former programme participants. The result from our augmented matching function shows that the lock-in effect is also present … matching process. However, this effect varies largely between different types of programmes. Positive effects occur for long …

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The welfare effects of mandatory reemployment programs: combining a structural model and experimental data

Maibom, Jonas - 2021

This paper estimates a structural model of job search which accounts for utility costs and benefits linked to mandatory reemployment programs. The estimation uses data from a randomized experiment which generates exogenous variation in the threat of program participation. I use the compensating...

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