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Empirical Evaluation of Broader Job Search Requirements for Unemployed Workers
Klaauw, Bas van der; Vethaak, Heike - 2022
This paper analyses data from a large-scale field experiment where unemployed workers were randomly assigned to an additional caseworker meeting with the purpose to impose a broader job search strategy. We find that the meeting significantly increases job finding and is cost effective. However,...
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Extended Unemployment Insurance and Job Search : Evidence from Time Use Data
Regmi, Krishna - 2015
In this paper, I investigate the effect of extended unemployment insurance (UI) coverage in the United States in recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031507
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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced … model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703506
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Active Labor Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe: A Survey
Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703577
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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives
Brown, Alessio J G; Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced … model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123628
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The Equilibrium Search Model with Productivity Dispersion and Structural Unemployment: an Application to Danish Data.
Christensen, B.J.; Jensen, P.; Nielsen, M.S.; Poulsen, K.; … - School of Economics and Management, Institut for Økonomi - 1999
We estimate an equilibrium search model with productivity dispersion between markets and structural unemployment, using … Danish data. For women, structural unemployment is relatively more important than frictional unemployment, but for men …, frictional unemployment is most important. Overall, frictional unemployment is relatively more important than in an earlier study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005646973
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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced … model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755198
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Active Labour Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe - A Survey
Bergemann, Annette; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labour market policies on individual labour market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662001
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Long term effects of public policy for displaced workers in Sweden - shipyard workers in the West and miners in the North
Ohlsson, Henry; Storrie, Donald - 2007
shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321623
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Long term effects of public policy for displaced workers in Sweden – shipyard workers in the West and miners in the North
Ohlsson, Henry; Storrie, Donald - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007
shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644530