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The effectiveness of active labor market policies: evidence from a social experiment using non-parametric bounds
"We re-analyze the effects of a Danish active labor market programme social experiment, which included a range of sub-treatments, including meetings with caseworkers, job search assistance courses, ...
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Wage growth implications of fixed-term employment: an analysis by contract duration and job mobility
"Focusing on Spain, where fixed-term workers account for a third of the wage and salary workforce, we examine the wage growth implications of fixed-term employment of varying duration while ...
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The effect of monitoring unemployment insurance recipients on unemployment duration: Evidence from a field experiment
"Programme administration is a relatively neglected issue in the analysis of disincentive effects of unemployment benefit systems. We investigate this issue with a field experiment in Hungary ...
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Employability of young Italian men after a jobless period, 1989-98
"In this paper we investigate the existence of negative jobless duration dependence and the impact of jobless spells on future wages. Our findings are somewhat out of line compared with analogous ...
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Temporary jobs and job search effort in Europe
"Using longitudinal data on individuals from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for eleven countries during 1995–2001, I investigate temporary job contract duration and job search effort. ...
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Distribution and determinants of lifetime unemployment
"The empirical literature on unemployment almost exclusively focuses on the duration of distinct unemployment spells. In contrast, we use a unique administrative micro data set for the time span ...
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How binding are legal limits? Transitions from temporary to permanent work in Spain
"This paper studies the duration pattern of fixed-term contracts and the determinants of their conversion into permanent ones in Spain, where the share of fixed-term employment is the highest in ...
