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The welfare effects of mandatory reemployment programs: combining a structural model and experimental data

Maibom Pedersen, Jonas - 2021

This paper estimates a structural model of job search which accounts for utility costs and benefits linked to mandatory reemployment programs. The estimation uses data from a randomized experiment which generates exogenous variation in the threat of program participation. I use the compensating...

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Can Training Programs or Rather Wage Subsidies Bring the Unemployed Back to Work? A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation for Germany

Neubäumer, Renate - 2010

Our paper investigates the relative effects of wage subsidies and further vocational training on the subsequent employment prospects of previously unemployed program participants. First, we outline a theoretical approach based on a firm's hiring decision. For the relative effectiveness of both...

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The Effect of the Hartz Labor Market Reforms on Post-Unemployment Wages, Sorting, and Matching

Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020

wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage … wages of displaced workers after their return to work. Women experienced smaller wage losses than men.For both sexes, over … a large increase in post-displacement employment in the temporary work sector after the reforms. Sorting into worse …

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The Effect of Extending the Duration of Eligibility in an Italian Labour Market Programme for Dismissed Workers

Rettore, Enrico; Paggiaro, Adriano; Trivellato, Ugo - 2021

Liste di mobilitý (LM) is an Italian labour market programme targeted to dismissed workers. There is a 'passive' component granting monetary benefits to employees dismissed by firms larger than 15 employees, and an 'active' component providing an employment subsidy to any firm hiring workers...

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Effective Active Labor Market Policies

Boone, Jan; van Ours, Jan C. - 2021

We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of different types of active labor market policies (ALMP). In our empirical analysis we use data on 20 OECD countries covering the time period 1985-1999. We find that labor market training is the most effective program to bring down unemployment....

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Unemployment Vouchers Versus Low-Wage Subsidies

Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021

The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the longterm unemployed) and are provided only for a...

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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 individual unemployed workers are relevant, but also...

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Evaluating public employment programs with field experiments : a survey of American evidence

O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2017

tended to raise reemployment wages after work search among the unemployed. A series of field experiments in the 1980s … investigated positive incentives to overcome the work disincentive effects of UI. These were followed by experiments in the 1990s … that evaluated the effects of restrictions on UI eligibility through stronger work search requirements and alternative uses …

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Switching from an inclining to a zero-level unemployment benefit profile : good for work incentives?

Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Inga, Leda - 2020

This paper evaluates the impact on the transition to work of a policy reform in Belgium that restricted the access to a …

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Scrapping the entitlement to unemployment benefits for young labor market entrants : an effective way to get them to work?

Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Inga, Leda - 2019

We examine the impact of scrapping entitlement to unemployment insurance (UI) on job finding and employment of young labor market entrants. In Belgium, young labor market entrants with short or no employment record are eligible for non-means-tested UI after a one-year waiting period. This zero...

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