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The effect of job referrals on labor market outcomes in Brazil
O'Leary, Christopher J.; Cravo, Túlio; Sierra, Ana Cristina - 2019
This paper is the first to use program administrative data from Brazil's National Employment System (SINE) to assess the impact of SINE job interview referrals on labor market outcomes. Data for a five-year period (2012-2016) are used to evaluate the impact of SINE on employment probability,...
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The effect of job referrals on labor market outcomes in Brazil
O'Leary, Christopher J.; Cravo, Túlio; Sierra, Ana C.; … - 2019
This paper is the first to use program administrative data from Brazil's National Employment System (SINE) to assess the impact of SINE job interview referrals on labor market outcomes. Data for a five-year period (2012-2016) are used to evaluate the impact of SINE on employment probability,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992106
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Effectiveness of a job vacancy referral scheme
Bollens, Joost; Cockx, Bart - In: IZA journal of labor policy 6 (2017) 15, pp. 1-24
The public employment service (PES) makes use in many countries of vacancy referrals as to facilitate the matching between unemployed workers and vacancies. Based on a “timing-of-events” approach to control for selective participation, this study evaluates whether this policy instrument...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820623
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Safety net or helping hand? : the effect of job search assistance and compensation on displaced workers
Fackler, Daniel; Stegmaier, Jens; Upward, Richard - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023
We provide the first systematic evidence on the effectiveness of a contested policy in Germany to help displaced workers. So-called “transfer companies” (Transfergesellschaften) employ displaced workers for a fixed period, during which time workers are provided with job-search assistance and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014336188
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Modeling Financial Incentives to Get Unemployed Back to Work
van Ours, Jan C.; Boone, Jan - 2021
We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job … search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of … benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across the board reduction in the replacement rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321326
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Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers: a randomized controlled field experiment in Germany
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Stephan, Gesine - 2021
In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415082
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Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers: a randomized controlled field experiment in Germany
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Stephan, Gesine - 2021
Integration Agreement (IA) are contracts between the employment agency and the unemployed, nudging the latter to comply with rules on search behavior. We designed and implemented an RCT involving thousands of newly unemployed workers, randomizing at the individual level both the timing of the IA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496735
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The effects of more intensive counselling for disadvantaged unemployed youth
Eppel, Rainer; Mahringer, Helmut - 2022
significant effect on the overall extent of integration into employment. Regarding post-unemployment job quality, we find no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013466935
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Participation of unemployment benefit recipients in active labor market programs : before and after the German labor market reforms
Stephan, Gesine; Zickert, Kathi - 2008
gerechtfertigt waren. Wir vergleichen dazu Kohorten, die im März der Jahre 2003 bis 2006 in Arbeitslosigkeit eingetreten sind und zu …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873961
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A field experiment on labor market speeddates for unemployed workers
Klaauw, Bas van der; Ziegler, Lennart - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978388