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Vocational training for female job returners: Effects on employment, earnings and job quality
Doerr, Annabelle - 2022
This paper studies how training vouchers increase the employment prospects of women with interrupted employment … histories. Using the population of female job returners who receive a training voucher to participate in training programs and a … randomly selected control group from German administrative data, I analyze the effectiveness of training on various labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013269297
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Later retirement and the labor market re-integration of elderly unemployed workers
Frimmel, Wolfgang - 2020
This paper studies the impact of raising the eligibility age of early retirement on the re-integration into the labor market of elderly unemployed workers. I exploit two Austrian pension reforms increasing the early retirement age step-wise for different quarter-of-birth cohorts. Empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012662706
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Do case workers help the unemployed?
Rosholm, Michael - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) August, pp. 1-10
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries spend, on average, an equivalent of 0.4% of their gross domestic product on active and passive labor market policies. This is a non-negligible sum, especially in times of strained government budgets. Meetings with case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887073
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Assignment Mechanisms, Selection Criteria, and the Effectiveness of Training Programs
Doerr, Annabelle; Strittmatter, Anthony - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2014
We analyze the effectiveness of further training for unemployed under two different regulatory regimes, which are … caseworkers, because they can assign unemployed to training courses directly. Under the new regime a voucher system is implemented …. Further, new selection criteria instruct caseworkers to assign training to unemployed with high employment probabilities after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885998
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Employment and earnings effects of awarding training vouchers in Germany
Doerr, Annabelle; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kruppe, Thomas; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
In 2003, Germany moved from a system in which participants in training programs for the unemployed are assigned by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957662
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Employment and Earnings Effects of Awarding Training Vouchers in Germany
Doerr, Annabelle; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kruppe, Thomas; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In 2003, Germany moved from a system in which participants in training programs for the unemployed are assigned by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959673
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The Impact of Labor Intermediation and Training in High Informality Contexts. Evidence from Paraguay.
Campos, Nicolás; Chalup, Miguel; Mitnik, Oscar A.; … - 2024
We provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact of reforming public training programs offered in Paraguay on … formal employment. The Programa de Apoyo a la Inserción Laboral (PAIL) revamped training program design in the country by … within companies with classroom training. We combine administrative records—which contain detailed information on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015096931
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Contingent Convergence: A Comparative Analysis of Activation Policies
Eichhorst, Werner; Konle-Seidl, Regina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The trend towards activation has been one of the major issues in recent welfare and labour market reforms in Europe and the US. Despite considerable initial variation across national models with respect to the scope and intensity of activation, redefining the link between social protection and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566376
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Employment subsidies and job insertion of higher education graduates in the labor market
Khayati, Anis; Hani, Umme; Alam, Shabbir; Sha, Nadia; … - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 11, pp. 1-13
This paper uses data from the 24 governorates in Tunisia over the period 2012-2020 to study the relationship between job insertion of higher education graduates into the formal labor market and a number of independent variables, namely active labor supply, labor demand, an active labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015197937
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Vocational training for female job returners : effects on employment, earnings and job quality
Doerr, Annabelle - 2022
This paper studies how training vouchers increase the employment prospects of women with interrupted employment … histories. Using the population of female job returners who receive a training voucher to participate in training programs and a … randomly selected control group from German administrative data, I analyze the effectiveness of training on various labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013162301