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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? : A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature
Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - 2013
A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour … combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784011
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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? : conference paper
Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - 2013 - This version: February 13, 2013
) work for immigrants. From the existing literature, we identify 24 research papers estimating 79 short-run treatment effects … of ALMPs on immigrants. We perform a meta-analysis of these findings based on the sign and significance of the estimates …. This allows us to present quantitative evidence for the relative effectiveness for immigrants of different types of ALMPs …
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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? : a meta-analysis of the evaluation literature
Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-18
A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group in European labour …, there is no systematic review establishing which ALMPs are effective for immigrants. Using a meta-analysis, we condense 93 … unemployment: training, job search assistance, wage subsidies and subsidised public sector employment. We find that only wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472788
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Policy Options for Reducing Poverty and Raising Employment Rates in Israel
Hemmings, Philip - 2010
Welfare-to-work measures are a central theme of Israel’s labour and social policies to tackle relative poverty, which is concentrated among the Arab-Israeli and Ultra-orthodox (Haredi) communities. Policies include pilot programmes involving private-sector job placement (the “Wisconsin”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444015
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China's Labour Market in Transition : Job Creation, Migration and Regulation
Herd, Richard - 2010
Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444601
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Faces of joblessness : characterising employment barriers to inform policy
Fernández, Rodrigo; Immervoll, Herwig; Pacifico, Daniele; … - 2016
This paper proposes a novel method for identifying and visualising key employment obstacles that may prevent individuals from participating fully in the labour market. The approach is intended to complement existing sources of information that governments use when designing and implementing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476564
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Atypical employment in Europe 1996 - 2011
Allmendinger, Jutta; Hipp, Lena; Stuth, Stefan - 2013
, unemployment, and economic inactivity between 1996 and 2011. In our analyses, we distinguish between fixedterm employment, solo …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010208432
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Faces of Joblessness : Characterising Employment Barriers to Inform Policy
Fernandez, Rodrigo - 2016
This paper proposes a novel method for identifying and visualising key employment obstacles that may prevent individuals from participating fully in the labour market. The approach is intended to complement existing sources of information that governments use when designing and implementing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990856
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Occupations in the European labour market during the COVID-19 pandemic
Flisi, Sara; Santangelo, Giulia - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 57 (2022) 2, pp. 120-126
In order to capture the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labour market, several aspects need to be taken into account. First, containment measures put in place in member states at different times and with different levels of severity determined the interruption of several economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252682
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Short-term training programs for immigrants in the German welfare system : do effects differ from natives and why?
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas; Aldashev, Alisher - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-20
We evaluate the individual employment effects of four types of short-term training for immigrants and natives in the … training increase the employment chances of immigrants, whereas the other two are rather ineffective. Effect differences … between immigrants and natives predominantly result from socio-demographic composition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224802