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How to help unemployed find jobs quickly: experimental evidence from a mandatory activation program
"This paper investigates how a mandatory activation program in Denmark affects the job finding rate of unemployed workers. The activation program was introduced in an experimental setting where about ...
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Workplace accidents and workplace safety: on under-reporting and temporary jobs
"Statistics on workplace accidents do not always reflect workplace safety because workers under-report for fear of job-loss if they report having had an accident. Based on an analysis of fatal and ...
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Temporary jobs and the severity of workplace accidents
"From the point of view of workplace safety, it is important to know whether having a temporary job has an effect on the severity of workplace accidents. We present an empirical analysis on the ...
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Gender and the effect of working hours on firm-sponsored training
"Using employees' longitudinal data, we study the effect of working hours on the propensity of firms to sponsor training of their employees. We show that, whereas male part-time workers are less ...
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How to stimulate single mothers on welfare to find a job; evidence from a natural experiment
"We present the results from a natural experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to find a job. Two policy instruments were introduced: an earnings disregard and job creation. The ...
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Unemployment of non-western immigrants in the Great Recession
"This paper examines whether unemployment of non-western immigrant workers in the Netherlands was disproportionally affected by the Great Recession. We analyze unemployment data covering the period ...
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Unhappiness and job finding
"It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at the same time active labor market policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work more quickly. Using data ...
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Effective active labor market policies
"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 ...
