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Intensifying the use of benefit sanctions : an effective tool to shorten welfare receipt and speed up transitions to employment?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - 2009
sanctions on the drop-out from welfare and the transition to employment. The estimated local average treatment effect (LATE) is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003920164
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Intensifying the use of benefit sanctions? : an effective tool to shorten welfare receipt and speed up transitions to employment?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - 2009
sanctions on the drop-out from welfare and the transition to employment. The estimated local average treatment effect (LATE) is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942053
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To meet or not to meet, that is the question : short-run effects of high-frequency meetings with case workers
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Kjærsgaard, Lene; Rosholm, Michael - 2014
We investigate the effects of meetings between the unemployed and their case workers on the transition rate from … effects of meetings. The transition rate strongly increases in the week the meeting is held, and this effect persists for some … the transition rate to work does not depend on the timing of the meeting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258826
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Job Search, Conditional Treatment and Recidivism : The Employment Services for Ex-Offenders Program Reconsidered
Bierens, Herman J. - 2011
The objective of this paper is to re-evaluate the effect of the 1985 Employment Services for Ex-Offenders (ESEO) program on recidivism in San Diego, Chicago and Boston. The initial group of program participants was split randomly in a control group and a treatment group. The actual treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014185099
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Job search during a pandemic recession: survey evidence from the Netherlands
Balgova, Maria; Trenkle, Simon; Zimpelmann, Christian; … - 2021
This paper studies job search behavior in the midst of a pandemic recession. We use long-running panel data from the Netherlands (LISS) and complement the core survey with our own COVID-specific module, conducted in June 2020, surveying job search effort of employed as well as unemployed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486385
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Discouraging workers : estimating the impacts of macroeconomic shocks on the search intensity of the unemployed
DeLoach, Stephen B.; Kurt, Mark - In: Journal of labor research 34 (2013) 4, pp. 433-454
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010347566
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Intensifying the use of benefit sanctions: an effective tool to shorten welfare receipt and speed up transitions to employment?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - 2009
sanctions on the drop-out from welfare and the transition to employment. The estimated local average treatment effect (LATE) is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299504
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Should welfare administration be centralized or decentralized? Evidence from a policy experiment
Boockmann, Bernhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas; … - 2010
administration has a negative effect on the transition of male welfare recipients to self-sufficient employment, but it does not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303901
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Intensifying the use of benefit sanctions: an effective tool to shorten welfare receipt and speed up transitions to employment?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - 2009
sanctions on the drop-out from welfare and the transition to employment. The estimated local average treatment effect (LATE) is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269695
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Treatment evaluation in the case of interactions within markets
Ferracci, Marc; Jolivet, Grégory; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2010
We extend the standard evaluation framework to allow for interactions between individuals within segmented markets. An individual's outcome depends not only on the assigned treatment status but also on (features of) the distribution of treatments in his market. To evaluate how the distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273977