Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - In: IZA journal of labor policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-38
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 a triple-difference methodology, the hiring subsidy is shown to increase the job … least a bachelor's degree. However, the hiring subsidy mainly creates temporary short-lived employment: eligible jobseekers …