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Activation and active labour market policies in OECD countries : stylized facts and evidence on their effectiveness

Martin, John P. - 2014

Activation policies aimed at getting working-age people off benefits and into work have become a buzzword in labour … labour market policies (ALMPs), a key component in any activation strategy. It then reviews the macroeconomic evidence on the … country reviews of activation policies. It concludes with a discussion of crucial unanswered questions about activation. …

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Activation and active labour market policies in OECD countries : stylised facts and evidence on their effectiveness

Martin, John P. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-29

Activation policies aimed at getting working-age people off benefits and into work have become a buzzword in labour … on active labour market policies (ALMPs), a key component in any activation strategy. It then reviews the macroeconomic … recent OECD country reviews of activation policies. It concludes with a discussion of crucial unanswered questions about …

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Reforming the benefit system to ‘make work pay’ : options and priorities in a weak labour market

Immervoll, Herwig - 2012

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Whither activation policies? : reflections for the future

Martin, John P. - 2016

Activation policies aimed at getting working-age people off benefits and into work have been embraced by many OECD … countries. In a previous paper, I have argued that activation strategies have performed well during the Great Recession and … consider what challenges what challenges the activation paradigm is likely to face over the coming decades when US and European …

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How demanding are activation requirements for jobseekers?

Immervoll, Herwig; Knotz, Carlo - 2018

This paper presents new information on activity-related eligibility criteria for unemployment and related benefits in OECD and EU countries in 2017, comparing the strictness of "demanding" elements built into unemployment benefits across countries and over time. Eligibility criteria for...

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Unemployment benefits and job match quality : do unemployment benefits help those seeking work to obtain better jobs?

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2014

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and reducing their incentive to look for work. This trade-off between benefits and incentives is central to the public debate about extending benefit periods during the recent...

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Benefit duration and job search effort : evidence from a natural experiment

Lichter, Andreas - 2016

duration in Germany paired with individual-level data on job search behavior to directly investigate this assumed relationship …

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Opening the blackbox : how does labor market policy affect the job seekers' behavior? ; a field experiment

Arni, Patrick - 2015

Empirically, not much is known about the mechanisms how labor market programs like job search assistance and training operate to support finding a job. This paper provides novel evidence to open the "blackbox": it causally links the program interventions to the dynamics of search behavior,...

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The effect of the Hartz labor market reforms on post-unemployment wages, sorting, and matching

Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020

We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...

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Contingent convergence : a comparative analysis of activation policies

Eichhorst, Werner (contributor); … - 2008

The trend towards activation has been one of the major issues in recent welfare and labour market reforms in Europe and … activation, redefining the link between social protection and labour market policies on the one hand and employment on the other … has been a common issue in labour market reforms. The paper shows the development of activation policies in terms of basic …

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