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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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Active labor market policies

Crépon, Bruno; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2016

Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have been published. In this review, we critically assess policy effectiveness. We emphasize insights from recent randomized...

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The labor market in Germany, 2000–2016 : the transformation of a notoriously rigid labor market into a role model of its own style is essentially complete

Rinne, Ulf; Schneider, Hilmar - 2017

instruments. Important developments since 2000 include steadily decreasing unemployment rates (since 2005), increasing …

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Can trade help achieve the employment targets of the sustainable development goals?

Vandenberg, Paul - 2017

The paper asks whether trade can help to achieve the employment targets of the Sustainable Development Goals. The focus is on Goal 8, which is to "promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all." The theoretical and empirical links...

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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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Long-run effects of dynamically assigned treatments : a new methodology and an evaluation of training effects on earnings

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vikström, Johan - 2019

certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the … certain time in unemployment will leave unemployment before training while others will be trained later. We are interested in …

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Active labour market policies in Germany : do regional labour markets benefit?

Wapler, Rüdiger; Werner, Daniel; Wolf, Katja - In: Applied economics 50 (2018) 51, pp. 5561-5578

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Labour inequalities in Europe : the case of Serbia

Mihic, Svetlana; Filipović, Miroslava; Dasic, Danijela - In: Prague economic papers : a bimonthly journal of … 28 (2019) 1, pp. 86-104

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Unemployment and labor market policy in Visegrad Group countries

Zieliński, Mariusz - 2014

the economic crisis, the level and structure of unemployment (taking into account the situation of women and young people … as the groups strongly exposed to unemployment), and the level and structure of expenditures within the labor market …, which contributed to an increase in unemployment. There is no discrimination against women in the labor market, but there …

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The unexpected consequences of job search monitoring : disability instead of employment?

Brouwer, Octave de; Leduc, Elisabeth; Tojerow, Ilan - 2019

unemployment to disability and no impact on the transition rate to employment or inactivity. More precisely, individuals just below …

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