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-skilled unemployment. Yet, empirical evidence on their effectiveness is scarce. In this paper, we use Belgian administrative data to … exact matching. Our findings indicate that such subsidies can be effective in reducing unemployment and inactivity, but only … deteriorates physical health, thus increasing the worker's probability of claiming disability insurance benefits. …
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-skilled unemployment. Yet, empirical evidence on their effectiveness is scarce. In this paper, we use Belgian administrative data to … exact matching. Our findings indicate that such subsidies can be effective in reducing unemployment and inactivity, but only … deteriorates physical health, thus increasing the worker's probability of claiming disability insurance benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826750
We evaluate the impact of hiring subsidies for unemployed jobseekers in Wallonia, the Frenchspeaking region in the south of Belgium. The special feature of these subsidies is that they are more readily available for low-educated youths, who are eligible from registration as a jobseeker or a few...
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We use a randomized controlled trial to examine the short- and mid-term impacts of a best-practice training program on (non-)employment outcomes in Ghana. Overall the program did not affect core labor market outcomes at the extensive (employment) and intensive (hours of work, income) margin, but...
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) from unemployment – i.e., the target group for entrepreneurship incentives – strongly increases the probability of … switching back to unemployment. Thus, entrepreneurship and higher education policies should be considered together in order to …
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to the COVID-19 pandemic. In South Africa, where unemployment is among the highest globally, the Temporary Employer …
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unemployment rates in the world, we find that the policy increased the probability of remaining employed in the short term by 15 …
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One of the key challenges of social policy in Poland in the early 21st century is to adapt its management to the requirements of a service economy. Essential conditions for the mixed economy of welfare have been already created after adjustments of the subsystems of national social policy during...
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Long-term unemployment can lead to skill attrition and have detrimental effects on future employment prospects …, particularly following periods of economic crises when employment growth is slow and cannot accommodate high levels of unemployment … costeffective and efficient means of reducing unemployment, during both periods of economic stability and recovery. …
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increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …
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