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Vocational Training of Unemployed Workers in Belgium
Cockx, Bart - 2021
In this paper we estimate, for the 1989-93 period in Belgium, the effect of vocational classroom training on the rate of transition from unemployment. We propose a "control function" estimator accounting for variable treatment effects. In the absence of interaction effects between explanatory...
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Job training and job search assistance policies in developing countries
Carranza Noguera, Eliana; McKenzie, David J. - 2023
Governments around the developing world face pressure to intervene actively to help jobseekers find employment. Two of the most common policies used are job training, based on the idea that many of those seeking jobs lack the skills employers want, and job search assistance, based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014419272
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The effects of more intensive counselling for disadvantaged unemployed youth
Eppel, Rainer; Mahringer, Helmut - 2022
Many European countries are facing the key challenge of integrating low-skilled jobless young people into the labour market. From 2018 to 2020, the Public Employment Service (PES) in Vienna tested a new model of intensified support ("case management"). The target group consisted of young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013466935
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Youth labor market interventions : comprehensive programs that focus on skills can reduce unemployment and upgrade skills in OECD countries
Kluve, Jochen - 2014
Reducing youth unemployment and generating more and better youth employment opportunities are key policy challenges … worldwide. Active labor market programs for disadvantaged youth may be an effective tool in such cases, but the results have … youth intervention program is comprehensiveness, comprising multiple targeted components, including jobsearch assistance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422399
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End-of-year spending and the long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemployed
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina; Sajons, Christoph - 2016
This study re-estimates the employment effects of training programs for the unemployed using exogenous variation in participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In addition to estimating complier effects with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571449
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End-of-year spending and the long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemployed
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina; Sajons, Christoph - 2016
This study re-estimates the employment effects of training programs for the unemployed using exogenous variation in participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In addition to estimating complier effects with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571637
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End-of-year spending and the long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemployed
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina; Sajons, Christoph - 2016
This study re-estimates the employment effects of training programs for the unemployed using exogenous variation in participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In addition to estimating complier effects with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595821
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Screening through activation : differential effects of a youth activation programme
Hall, Caroline; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Liljeberg, Linus; … - 2017
theoretic framework. Utilizing an RD design, we analyse responses to a nationwide Swedish youth activation program. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597177
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Duration dependence versus unobserved heterogeneity in treatment effects : Swedish labor market training and the transition rate to employment
Richardson, Katarina (contributor);  … - 2008
The vocational employment training program is the most expensive training program in Sweden and a cornerstone of labor market policy. We analyze its causal effects on the individual transition rate from unemployment to employment by exploiting variation in the timing of treatment and outcome,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003709720
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Estimating the effect of a retraining program on the re-employment rate of displaced workers
Cavaco, Sandra; Fougère, Denis; Pouget, Julien - 2009
In this paper we estimate by matching techniques the effects of a French retraining program on the reemployment rate of displaced workers. This program, called "Conventions de conversion", was intended to improve reemployment prospects of displaced workers by proposing them retraining and job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860913