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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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Profiling tools help to deliver employment services more efficiently. They can ensure that more costly, intensive services are targeted at jobseekers most at risk of becoming long term unemployed. Moreover, the detailed information on the employment barriers facing jobseekers obtained through...
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Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there are no spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that this assumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers. Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...
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Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there are no spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that this assumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers. Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...
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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 …
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matching and unemployment. Based on two microeconomic datasets, we show that the market share of the Federal Employment Agency …Our paper aims at improving the understanding for the role of public employment agencies in job matching. We analyze … activities of the Federal Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline of unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved …
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restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment …Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the … Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline in unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved activation of unemployed …
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restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment …Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the … Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline of unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved activation of unemployed …
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restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment …Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the … Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline in unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved activation of unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014228264
lose employment faster, especially once eligible for new unemployment benefits. Job seekers assigned to JSA have similar …
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