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47 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16033
What Works for the Unemployed? Evidence from Quasi-Random Caseworker Assignments
Anders Humlum, Jakob R. Munch, Mette Rasmussen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15011
The Intended and Unintended Effects of Promoting Labor Market Mobility
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Robert Mahlstedt
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 November 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14026
Mandatory Integration Agreements for Unemployed Job Seekers: A Randomized Controlled Field Experiment in Germany
Gerard J. van den Berg, Barbara Hofmann, Gesine Stephan, Arne Uhlendorff
published online in: International Economic Review, 15 November 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13618
The Intergenerational Effects of Requiring Unemployment Benefit Recipients to Engage in Non-Search Activities
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Anne C. Gielen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13478
Can Subsidized Employment Tackle Long-Term Unemployment? Experimental Evidence from North Macedonia
Alex Armand, Pedro Carneiro, Federico Tagliati, Yiming Xia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13170
Improving Job Search Skills: A Field Experiment on Online Employment Assistance
Guglielmo Briscese, Giulio Zanella, Veronica Quinn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12835
Reciprocity and the Interaction between the Unemployed and the Caseworker
Gerard J. van den Berg, Iris Kesternich, Gerrit Müller, Bettina M. Siflinger
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 227, 106706
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11766
Does Job Search Assistance Really Raise Employment?
Lionel Cottier, Yves Flückiger, Pierre Kempeneers, Rafael Lalive
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10655
How Effective Are Active Labor Market Policies in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence
David McKenzie
published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2017, 32(2), 127-54
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10369
Job Creation Schemes in Turbulent Times
Annette Bergemann, Laura Pohlan, Arne Uhlendorff
revised version published as 'The Impact of Participation in Job Creation Schemes in Turbulent Times' in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 182-201
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10263
Do Youth Employment Programs Improve Labor Market Outcomes? A Systematic Review
Jochen Kluve, Olga Susana Puerto, David A. Robalino, Jose M. Romero, Friederike Rother, Jonathan Stöterau, Felix Weidenkaff, Marc J. Witte
published as 'Do youth employment programs improve labor market outcomes? A quantitative review' in: World Development, 2019, 114, 237 - 253
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9782
Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Methods for Dynamic Treatment Evaluation
Gerard J. van den Berg, Petyo Bonev, Enno Mammen
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (2), 355–367.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9236
What Works? A Meta Analysis of Recent Active Labor Market Program Evaluations
David Card, Jochen Kluve, Andrea Weber
revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018, 16 (3), 894 - 931
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9183
The Return to Labor Market Mobility: An Evaluation of Relocation Assistance for the Unemployed
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Robert Mahlstedt
revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 148, 136-151
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9134
How to Fight Long-Term Unemployment: Lessons from Germany
Alexander Spermann
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4:15
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8551
Can Active Labor Market Policy Be Counter-Productive?
Gilles Saint-Paul
published in: Research in Economics, 2015, 69 (1), 26-36
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8337
Unobservable, but Unimportant? The Influence of Personality Traits (and Other Usually Unobserved Variables) for the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies
Marco Caliendo, Robert Mahlstedt, Oscar A. Mitnik
substantially revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 46, 14-25.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8193
Do Interventions Targeted at Micro-Entrepreneurs and Small and Medium-Sized Firms Create Jobs? A Systematic Review of the Evidence for Low and Middle Income Countries
Michael Grimm, Anna Luisa Paffhausen
published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 32, 67-85
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7740
Structural Empirical Evaluation of Job Search Monitoring
Gerard J. van den Berg, Bas van der Klaauw
published in: International Economic Review, 2019, 60 (2), 879-903
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6476
To Meet or Not to Meet (Your Case Worker) – That is the Question
Gerard J. van den Berg, Lene Kjaersgaard, Michael Rosholm
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