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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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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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Is a sorrow shared a sorrow doubled? : parental unemployment and the life satisfaction of adolescent children

Borah, Melanie; Knabe, Andreas; Lücke, Christine - 2023

This paper examines possible spillover effects of parental unemployment on the subjective wellbeing of 12- to 21-year …-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … unemployment has negative effects, while no effect of fathers' unemployment can be detected. In subgroup analyses, we do not find …

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