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Can Job Search Assistance Improve the Labour Market Integration for Refugees? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Battisti, Michele - 2019
refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the … refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone surveys show a positive and significant treatment effect of 13 … percentage points on employment after twelve months. These effects are concentrated among low-educated refugees and those facing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892280
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Can job search assistance improve the labour market integration of refugees? : evidence from a field experiment
Battisti, Michele; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 61 (2019), pp. 21-40
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Jobcenters' strategies to promoting the inclusion of immigrant and native job seekers : a comparative analysis based on PASS survey data
Lehweß-Litzmann, René; Söhn, Janina - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-24
of active labor market policies. For immigrants having stayed more than 4 years in Germany, however, we do not find a …
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Evaluating public employment programs with field experiments : a survey of American evidence
O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2017
Research in the 1970s based on observational data provided evidence consistent with predictions from economic theory that paying unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to involuntarily jobless workers prolongs unemployment. However, some scholars also reported estimates that the additional time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011719866
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Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers: a randomized controlled field experiment in Germany
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Stephan, Gesine - 2021
In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment agency and the unemployed, jointly signed by the latter and the caseworker. IAs stipulate rights and obligations but are generally perceived as instruments to control search...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415082
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Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers: a randomized controlled field experiment in Germany
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Stephan, Gesine - 2021
Integration Agreement (IA) are contracts between the employment agency and the unemployed, nudging the latter to comply with rules on search behavior. We designed and implemented an RCT involving thousands of newly unemployed workers, randomizing at the individual level both the timing of the IA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496735
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Can Job Search Assistance Improve the Labour Market Integration for Refugees? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Battisti, Michele; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018
refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the … refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone surveys show a positive and significant treatment effect of 13 … percentage points on employment after twelve months. These effects are concentrated among low-educated refugees and those facing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932042
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The labor market effects of restricting refugees' employment opportunities
Ahrens, Achim; Beerli, Andreas; Hangartner, Dominik; … - 2023
Refugees, and immigrants more generally, often do not have access to all jobs in the labor market. We argue that … this hypothesis, we leverage refugees' exogenous geographic assignment in Switzerland, within-canton variation in labor … banning refugees from working in the first months after arrival, from working in certain sectors and regions, and from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500760
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The labor market effects of restricting refugees' employment opportunities
Ahrens, Achim; Beerli, Andreas; Hangartner, Dominik; … - 2023
Refugees, and immigrants more generally, often do not have access to all jobs in the labor market. We argue that … this hypothesis, we leverage refugees' exogenous geographic assignment in Switzerland, within-canton variation in labor … banning refugees from working in the first months after arrival, from working in certain sectors and regions, and from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500894
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Labor market effects of a work-first policy for refugees
Nielson Arendt, Jacob - 2020
integration of refugees. The policy added new requirements for refugees to actively search for jobs and to participate in on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012285898