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Targeting tax relief at youth employment
Webb, Matthew; Warman, Casey; Sweetman, Arthur - 2016
change in the unemployment rate. Many estimated effects are larger for males than females. Notably, strong evidence of …
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Under heavy pressure : intense monitoring and accumulation of sanctions for young welfare recipients in Germany
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2017
With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for welfare recipients aged younger than 25 years. For all types of non-compliance except for missing appointments, their basic cash benefit is withdrawn for three months. A second...
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Start me up : how fathers’ unemployment affects their sons’ school-to-work transitions
Kind, Michael - 2015
paternal unemployment delays sons’ school-to-work transitions and thus leads to a spell of early career non-employment. The … results show that substantial delaying effects of fathers’ unemployment exist and that they are heterogeneous among … educational groups. Therefore, paternal unemployment implies long-run intergenerational costs by hindering sons’ smooth school …
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Do reemployment programs for the unemployed work for youth? : evidence from the Great Recession in the United States
Michaelides, Marios; Mueser, Peter R.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2020
We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232672
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Labor market reform options to boost employment in South Africa
Duval, Romain; Ji, Yi; Shibata, Ippei - 2021
Raising South Africa's low employment rate to levels seen in emerging market or advanced economy peers could raise GDP per capita by 50 to 60 percent and reduce income inequality dramatically in the long term. By putting further strain on an already fragile labor market, Covid-19 has raised the...
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Screening through activation : differential effects of a youth activation programme
Hall, Caroline; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Liljeberg, Linus; … - 2017
We study the dual role of active labour market policies: First, ALMP may perform a screening role by increasing job-finding rates among individuals with good labour market prospects, already prior to programme participation. Second, actual program participation may help individuals with poor...
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Screening through activation : differential effects of a youth activation programme
Hall, Caroline King Barnard; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; … - 2016
We study the anatomy of responses to a major activation programme targeted at unemployed youth, introduced in Sweden in 2007. We use a regression discontinuity design to analyse individual reactions to the programme. We find that individuals who have a relatively high predicted probability of...
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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 …
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New deal for young people : evaluation of unemployment flows
Wilkinson, David (contributor) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002526127
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Do reemployment programs for the unemployed work for youth? : evidence from the Great Recession in the United States
Michaelides, Marios; Mueser, Peter R.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390790