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Employment, Mobility, and Active Labor Market Programs

Fredriksson, Peter; Johansson, Per - 2003

Using a unique micro panel data set we investigate whether active labor market programs improve employment prospects and increase mobility in the longer run. We consider two prototype programs: job creation programs and training programs. We find that both programs reduce the chances of finding...

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Vocational Training of Unemployed Workers in Belgium

Cockx, Bart Leo Wim - 2003

In this paper we estimate, for the 1989-93 period in Belgium, the effect of vocational classroom training on the rate of transition from unemployment. We propose a ?control function? estimator accounting for variable treatment effects. In the absence of interaction effects between explanatory...

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Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program for Displaced Workers on Their Transition to Permanent Jobs

Cavaco, Sandra; Fougère, Denis; Pouget, Julien - 2005

In this paper we estimate the short-term effects of a French retraining program that was intended to improve reemployment prospects of displaced workers. Our empirical analysis uses non-experimental data collected by the French Ministry of Labour. Transitions from unemployment to permanent vs....

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Are Job Search Programs a Promising Tool? : A Microeconometric Evaluation for Austria

Weber, Andrea Maria; Hofer, Helmut - 2004

In Austria job search programs were introduced on a large scale in 1999. These programs aim at activating unemployed at an early stage and bringing them back to work by training job search related skills. We evaluate the impact of active labour market programs in Austria on individual...

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Unemployment insurance in welfare states: Soft constraints and mild sanctions

Røed, Knud; Westlie, Lars - 2007

Based on a sequence of reforms in the Norwegian unemployment insurance (UI) system, we show that activity-oriented UI regimes - i.e., regimes with a high likelihood of required participa-tion in active labor market programs, duration limitations on unconditional UI entitlements, and high...

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The impact of labor market policies on job search behavior and post-unemployment job quality

Gaure, Simen; Røed, Knut; Westlie, Lars - 2008

We examine empirically the impacts of labor market policies - in terms of unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market programs (ALMP) - on the duration and outcome of job search and on the quality of a subsequent job. We find that time invested in job search tends to pay off in the form...

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Contracting out mandatory counselling and training for long-term unemployed : private for-profit or non-profit, or keep it public?

Cockx, Bart; Baert, Stijn - 2015

This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...

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Active job-search programs a promising tool? : a microeconometric evaluation for Austria

Weber, Andrea; Hofer, Helmut - 2003

In Austria active job-search programs were introduced on a large scale in 1999. These programs aim at activating unemployed at an early stage and bringing them back to work by training job-search related skills. We evaluate the impact of active labour market programs in Austria on individual...

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Active labour market programmes for women with a partner : challenge or replication of traditional gender roles

Kopf, Eva; Zabel, Cordula - 2014

A major unemployment and welfare benefit reform took place in Germany in 2005. One objective of this reform was to more … Programme der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik, wie beispielsweise Trainingsmaßnahmen oder Arbeitsgelegenheiten, in der Praxis … Programme der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik beeinflussen. Wir bilden verschiedene Haushaltsklassifikationen basierend auf dem …

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Job Creation Schemes in Turbulent Times

Bergemann, Annette - 2017

This paper analyzes the impact of job creation schemes (JCSs) on job search outcomes in the context of the turbulent East German labor market in the aftermath of the German reunification. High job destruction characterized the economic environment. JCSs were heavily used in order to cushion this...

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