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Use of unemployment insurance and public employment services after leaving welfare
O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2015
Families (TANF) become jobless, apply for and receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and participate in publicly funded …
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013448678
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The secular rise in unemployment insurance exhaustions and what can be done about it
Smith, Ralph E. - 2011
Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before … recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a similar unemployment rate) 35.6 percent exhausted. This paper documents the … increase in the exhaustion rate, along with the parallel rise in long-term unemployment; examines the consequences; and reviews …
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Modeling Financial Incentives to Get Unemployed Back to Work
van Ours, Jan C.; Boone, Jan - 2021
We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job … search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of … benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across the board reduction in the replacement rate …
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Effectiveness of a job vacancy referral scheme
Bollens, Joost; Cockx, Bart - In: IZA journal of labor policy 6 (2017) 15, pp. 1-24
The public employment service (PES) makes use in many countries of vacancy referrals as to facilitate the matching between unemployed workers and vacancies. Based on a “timing-of-events” approach to control for selective participation, this study evaluates whether this policy instrument...
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013429219
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Safety net or helping hand? : the effect of job search assistance and compensation on displaced workers
Fackler, Daniel; Stegmaier, Jens; Upward, Richard - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023
We provide the first systematic evidence on the effectiveness of a contested policy in Germany to help displaced workers. So-called “transfer companies” (Transfergesellschaften) employ displaced workers for a fixed period, during which time workers are provided with job-search assistance and...
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Thumbscrews for Agencies or for Individuals? How to Reduce Unemployment
Launov, Andrey - 2013
reduction of unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent labour market reform in Germany as … background we find that the role of unemployment benefit reduction for the reduction of unemployment is very modest (7% of the … the observed post-reform unemployment decline. If disincentive effects of PEA reforms had been avoided, the effect could …
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More caseworkers shorten unemployment durations and save costs : results from a field experiment in an Austrian public employment office
Böheim, René; Eppel, Rainer; Mahringer, Helmut - 2022
search requirements. More intensive counselling led to shorter unemployment episodes due to faster job entry, but also to … unemployment but are also cost-effective. …
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The accessibility to Employment Offices in the Spainish labour market
Suárez, Patricia; Mayor, Matías; Cueto, Begoña - 2010
The paper uses the theoretical framework of the Spatial Economics to analyze (1) the regional unemployment disparities … opportunities therefore reduce local unemployment. We estimate a spatial panel model in order to explain the unemployment …
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