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Statistical profiling in public employment services : an international comparison

Desiere, Sam; Langenbucher, Kristine; Struyven, Ludo - 2019

Profiling tools help to deliver employment services more efficiently. They can ensure that more costly, intensive services are targeted at jobseekers most at risk of becoming long term unemployed. Moreover, the detailed information on the employment barriers facing jobseekers obtained through...

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Sanctions for young welfare recipients

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2013

Social welfare systems usually imply specific obligations for benefit recipients. If a recipient does not comply with these obligations, a sanction involving a punitive benefits reduction may be imposed. In this paper we give an overview of the literature on the effects of sanctions in social...

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Recent extensions of US unemployment benefits : search responses in alternative labor market states

Valletta, Robert G. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-25

In response to the 2007 - 09 "Great Recession," the maximum duration of U.S. unemployment benefits was increased from the normal level of 26 weeks to an unprecedented 99 weeks. I estimate the impact of these extensions on job search, comparing them with the more limited extensions associated...

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Recent Extensions of U.S. Unemployment Benefits : Search Responses in Alternative Labor Market States

Valletta, Robert G. - 2014

In response to the 2007-09 “Great Recession,” the maximum duration of U.S. unemployment benefits was increased from the normal level of 26 weeks to an unprecedented 99 weeks. I estimate the impact of these extensions on job search, comparing them with the more limited extensions associated...

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Sanctions for young welfare recipients

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2013

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Unemployment Insurance in Welfare States : Soft Constraints and Mild Sanctions

Roed, Knut; Westlie, Lars - 2021

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 participation in active labor market programs, duration limitations on unconditional UI entitlements, and high sanction...

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Under heavy pressure : intense monitoring and accumulation of sanctions for young welfare recipients in Germany

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2017

With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for welfare recipients aged younger than 25 years. For all types of non-compliance except for missing appointments, their basic cash benefit is withdrawn for three months. A second...

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The Effect of Sanctions and Active Labour Market Programmes on the Exit Rate from Unemployment

Ahmad, Nisar; Svarer, Michael - 2009

participate in some active labour market programmes (ALMPs). Hence, modeling only one of them as treatment might over or … support points underestimates the effect of sanctions and active labour market programmes. Failing to control for selectivity … for sanctions not only underestimates the treatment effect of sanctions but also biases the treatment effect of ALMPs …

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Labor Courts, Job Search and Employment : Evidence from a Labor Reform in Brazil

Corbi, Raphael B.; Narita, Renata; Ferreira, Rafael; … - 2022

This paper studies the role of labor courts in determining labor market outcomes in the Brazilian economy. First, by exploring the fact that judges are assigned randomly to cases and using the universe of labor lawsuits filed in the country's largest labor courthouse from 2008 to 2013, we show...

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The Impacts of Labor Market Policies on Job Search Behavior and Post-Unemployment Job Quality

Gaure, Simen; Roed, Knut; Westlie, Lars - 2021

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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