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Reemployment premium effect of furlough programs: Evaluating Spain's scheme during the COVID-19 crisis
Garcia-Clemente, J.; Rubino, N.; Congregado, E. - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-9
This paper presents an average treatment effect analysis of Spain's furlough program during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using 2020 labour force quarterly microdata, we construct a counterfactual made of comparable nonfurloughed individuals who lost their jobs and apply propensity score...
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Tackling disabilities in young age: Policies that work
von Simson, Kristine; Hardoy, Inés - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 10 (2020) 1, pp. 1-27
, little is known about which measures are effective for improving youth work impairment. A hazard rate competing risk model … extent education/training programs, have the intended effect. In other words, work-impaired youths who participate in these … measures have a higher probability of obtaining work/starting an education and a lower probability of experiencing a transition …
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Unemployment and the role of supranational policies
Jimeno, Juan F. - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)
Unemployment in Europe is excessively high on average, and is divergent across countries and population groups within countries. On the one hand, over the past decades, national governments have implemented incomplete institutional reforms to amend dysfunctional labor markets. On the other hand,...
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How effective are hiring subsidies in reducing long-term unemployment among prime-aged jobseekers? Evidence from Belgium
Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-38
Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers older than 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on...
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Towards shared unemployment insurance in the euro area
Andor, László - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 10, pp. 1-15
The divergences developed within the euro area represent the main threat to the existence of the single currency and to the stability of the EU as a whole. Without proper automatic stabilisers, a monetary union can only deliver suboptimal results and may not even be sustainable. In the recent...
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Activation and employment support policies in OECD countries: An overview of current approaches
Immervoll, Herwig; Scarpetta, Stefano - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-22
policy areas. We argue that an effective policy strategy rests on a finely tuned balance between income support, work …
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Active Labour Market Policies in Poland
Wisniewski, Zenon; Maksim, Monika - In: CESifo Forum 14 (2013) 1, pp. 22-28
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The European Youth Guarantee: A Preliminary Assessment and Broader Conceptual Implications
Eichhorst, Werner; Rinne, Ulf - In: CESifo Forum 18 (2017) 2, pp. 34-38
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Notes on behavioral economics and labor market policy
Babcock, Linda; Congdon, William J.; Katz, Lawrence F.; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-14
Labor market policies succeed or fail at least in part depending on how well they reflect or account for behavioral responses. Insights from behavioral economics, which allow for realistic deviations from standard economic assumptions about behavior, have consequences for the design and...
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Long-term unemployment and the capability approach: The case of the German labor market
Olejniczak, Michael - In: Management Revue 23 (2012) 2, pp. 140-157
This text focuses on long-term unemployment in the German labor market caused by insufficient work skills capabilities …
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