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Mitigating Long-Term Unemployment in Europe

Miyamoto, Hiroaki; Suphaphiphat, Nujin - 2021

While unemployment rates in Europe declined after the global financial crisis until 2018/19, the incidence of long-term unemployment, the share of people who have been unemployed for more than one year to the total unemployed, remained high. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic could aggravate the...

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Can arts-based interventions enhance labor market outcomes among youth? : evidence from a randomized trial in Rio de Janeiro

Calero, Carla; Gonzales, Veronica; Soares, Yuri Suarez … - 2014

as a pedagogical tool. The corresponding life skills training component is combined with a technical component teaching … vocational skills. To our knowledge, this is the first paper to rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of a training program … constructed around expressive arts. Using a randomized assignment of favela youth into program and control groups, we look at the …

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Can arts-based interventions enhance labor market outcomes among youth? : evidence from a randomized trial in Rio de Janeiro

Calero, Carla; Corseuil, Carlos Henrique; Gonzales, Veronica - 2014

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Entitled to Leave : The impact of Unemployment Insurance Eligibility on Employment Duration and Job Quality

Khoury, Laura - 2020

Entitlement conditions are a little explored dimension of unemployment insurance (UI) schemes. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive evaluation of a reform that softened the minimum employment record condition to qualify for UI benefits in France after 2009. Using administrative panel data...

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What shifts did Covid-19 year 2020 bring to the labour market in Europe?

Baert, Stijn - 2021

This article discusses the evolution of key labour market indicators in the EU-27 countries between 2019 and 2020, i.e. between the year before the covid-19 crisis broke out and the year in which it impacted the economy heavily. Whereas earlier policy-oriented studies have dealt with the...

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Labour Market Reform in Germany : How to Improve Effectiveness

Wurzel, Eckhard - 2006

OECD Economic Survey of Germany (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/Germany). …

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Empirical evaluation of broader job search requirements for unemployed workers

Klaauw, Bas van der; Vethaak, Heike - 2022

This paper analyses data from a large-scale field experiment where unemployed workers were randomly assigned to an additional caseworker meeting with the purpose to impose a broader job search strategy. We find that the meeting significantly increases job finding and is cost effective. However,...

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Empirical evaluation of broader job search requirements for unemployed workers

Klaauw, Bas van der; Vethaak, Heike - 2022

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Employment subsidies and substitutable skills : an equilibrium matching approach

Cardullo, Gabriele (contributor); … - 2006

labor market and fiscal policies. Simulation results focus on the effects of employment subsidies and in-work benefits and …

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The employment effect of reforming a public employment agency

Launov, Andrey; Wälde, Klaus - 2015

By how much does an increase in operating effectiveness of a public employment agency (PEA) and a reduction of unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the...

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