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To work oneself out of poverty : the Dutch experience 1989 - 1996
Leeuwen, Jolanda van; Pannekoek, Jeroen - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001424145
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To Work Oneself Out of Poverty : The Dutch Experience 1989-96
van Leeuwen, Jolanda; Pannekoek, Jeroen - 2004
poverty in the Netherlands. For households with non-active heads, finding work by the head of the household is the most … important (investigated) event connected with exiting poverty, nearly a third of all poverty endings. However, finding a job by … the head of the household does not guarantee one leaving poverty. In practice, the success rate yields 25 percent. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014117381
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Structural estimation of search intensity : do non-employed workers search enough?
Gautier, Pieter; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - 2007
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372979
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Do stepping stone jobs exist? : early career paths in the medical profession
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Holm, Anders; Ours, Jan C. van - 1999
In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have toenrol in a training program which is in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301153
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Job search requirements for older unemployed workers : how do they affect re-employment rates and flows into states of inactivity for older unemployed workers?
Bloemen, Hans G. - 2016
Many OECD countries have, or have had, a policy that exempts older unemployed people from the requirement to search for a job. An aging population and low participation by older workers in the labor market increasingly place public finances under strain, and spur calls for policy measures that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434165
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Job-search periods for welfare applicants : evidence from a randomized experiment
Bolhaar, Jonneke; Kete, Nadine; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2016
This paper studies mandatory job-search periods for welfare applicants. During this period the benefits application is put on hold and the applicant is obliged to make job applications. We combine a randomized experiment with detailed administrative data to investigate the effects of imposing a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441683
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Job-search periods for welfare applicants : evidence from a randomized experiment
Bolhaar, Jonneke; Ketel, Nadine; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2016
This paper studies mandatory job-search periods for welfare applicants. During this period the benefits application is put on hold and the applicant is obliged to make job applications. We combine a randomized experiment with detailed administrative data to investigate the effects of imposing a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453997
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Job search during a pandemic recession: survey evidence from the Netherlands
Balgova, Maria; Trenkle, Simon; Zimpelmann, Christian; … - 2021
Netherlands (LISS) and complement the core survey with our own COVID-specific module, conducted in June 2020, surveying job search …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486385
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Loss aversion in the trade-off between wages and commuting distances
Dauth, Wolfgang; Haller, Peter - 2019
We exploit administrative data on exact commuting distances for a large sample of German employees and study the relation of commuting and wages. We find that it requires 1.5 times as much money in terms of higher wages for job changers to accept an increase of their commute as compared to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012309747
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Stepping-stones for the unemployed : the effect of temporary jobs on the duration until regular work
Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Heyma, … - 2004
Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from temporary into regular work. We investigate whether temporary work increases the transition rate to regular work. In that case, temporary work may enhance labour market efficiency....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575181