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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324982
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How effective are hiring subsidies to reduce long-term unemployment among prime-aged jobseekers? : evidence from Belgium
Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - 2021
Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012625877
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How effective are hiring subsidies in reducing long-term unemployment among prime-aged jobseekers? : evidence from Belgium
Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - In: IZA journal of labor policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-38
Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers older than 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198921
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How effective are hiring subsidies to reduce long-term unemployment among prime-aged jobseekers? : evidence from Belgium
Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - 2021
Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648522
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The potential of recommender systems for directing job search : a large-scale experiment
Behaghel, Luc; Dromundo, Sofia; Gurgand, Marc; Hazard, Yagan - 2024
We analyze the employment effects of directing job seekers' applications toward establishments likely to recruit. We run a two-sided randomization design involving about 800,000 job seekers and 40,000 establishments, based on an empirical model that recommends each job seeker to firms so as to...
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Do Government Sponsored Vocational Training Programs Help the Unemployed Find Jobs? Evidence from Russia
Nivorozhkin, Anton; Nivorozhkin, Eugene - 2005
results of propensity score matching indicate that training programs had a non-negative overall effect on the program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064567
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Active and Passive Policies Against Poverty with Decreasing Employability
Richiardi, Matteo G. - 2013
In this paper we propose a dynamic partial equilibrium model in order to explain the search behaviour of low-skilled non employed workers, when their employability decreases as the unemployment spell lengthens. We show that the unemployed react to a reduction in their current search...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095255
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Employment policies, hiring practices and firm performance
Blasco, Sylvie; Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara - 2012
ambiguous effect on the employer-employee matching quality and thus on firms' performance. Using a large scale experiment which … monitoring creates compulsion effects which counteract the possible improvement in the matching process expected from job search …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009668311
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Optimal labor-market policy in recessions
Jung, Philip; Küster, Keith - 2011
We examine the optimal labor market-policy mix over the business cycle. In a search and matching model with risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489652