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Sensitivity of matching-based program evaluations to the availability of control variables
Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 21 (2013), pp. 111-121
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Youth unemployment and active labor market policies in Europe
Caliendo, Marco; Schmidl, Ricarda - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 1, pp. 1-30
the aim of improving the integration prospects of struggling youths. Among the most common programs used are training … for training and wage subsidies, whereas the effects for public work programs are clearly negative. The evidence on the …
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Youth unemployment and active labor market policies in Europe
Caliendo, Marco; Schmidl, Ricarda - 2015 - Forthcoming in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015
the aim of improving the integration prospects of struggling youths. Among the most common programs used are training … for training and wage subsidies, whereas the effects for public work programs are clearly negative. The evidence on the …
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Does job search assistance really raise employment?
Cottier, Lionel; Flückiger, Yves; Kempeneers, Pierre; … - 2018
We study how job search assistance (JSA) affects employment in a randomized pilot study with long run administrative data. JSA increases employment in the first year after assignment. In the second year, when most job seekers have left JSA, the employment gains evaporate, and even turn into...
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Evaluating public employment programs with field experiments : a survey of American evidence
O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2017
Research in the 1970s based on observational data provided evidence consistent with predictions from economic theory that paying unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to involuntarily jobless workers prolongs unemployment. However, some scholars also reported estimates that the additional time...
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Early counselling of displaced workers : effects of collectively funded job search assistance
Andersson, Josefine - 2018
Employment Security Agreements, which are elements of Swedish collective agreements, offer a unique opportunity to study very early job search counselling of displaced workers. These agreements provide individual job search assistance to workers who are dismissed due to redundancy, often as...
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Can job search assistance improve the labour market integration of refugees? : evidence from a field experiment
Battisti, Michele; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018
We conducted a field experiment to evaluate the impact of job-search assistance on the employment of recently arrived refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone...
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Direct and indirect effects of training vouchers for the unemployed
Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Strittmatter, Anthony - 2015
This paper evaluates the effect of a voucher award system for assignment into vocational training on the employment … negative short term and positive long term employment effects of voucher award are mainly driven by actual training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288531
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Do case workers help the unemployed? : evidence for making a cheap and effective twist to labor market policies for unemployed workers
Rosholm, Michael - 2014
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries spend, on average, an equivalent of 0.4% of their gross domestic product on active and passive labor market policies. This is a non-negligible sum, especially in times of strained government budgets. Meetings with case workers -...
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The award of a training voucher and labor market outcomes : conference paper
Doerr, Annabelle; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kruppe, Thomas; … - 2013
This paper estimates the labor market effects of being awarded with a training voucher using an instrumental variable … approach. In Germany all public sponsored further training programs are allocated through vouchers and the system, we study … generated data in which we observe all training vouchers awarded in 2003 and 2004 as well as realized training participation …
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