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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9627 Bert van Landeghem
Frank Cörvers
Andries de Grip
Is There a Rationale to Contact the Unemployed Right from the Start? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Active Labour Market Policies often exclusively target towards the long-term unemployed. Although it might be more efficient to intervene earlier in order to prevent long-term unemployment rather ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 45, 158-168 )
D04, D61, J64, J68
9626 Gerard J. van den Berg
Barbara Hofmann
Arne Uhlendorff
The Role of Sickness in the Evaluation of Job Search Assistance and Sanctions
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during ...
(revised version published as 'Evaluating Vacancy Referrals and the Roles of Sanctions and Sickness Absenc' in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129, 3292-3322)
J64, J65, C41, C21
9625 Reinout Kleinhans
Maarten van Ham
The Support Paradox in Community Enterprise Experiments in The Netherlands
In many European countries, community entrepreneurship is increasingly considered as a means to initiate small-scale urban regeneration. However, residents in deprived communities are often viewed to ...
(published in: International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2017, 31 (4), 570-589)
D71, L26, L31, O35, R23
9624 Pierre Koning
Jan-Maarten van Sonsbeek
Making Disability Work? The Effects of Financial Incentives on Partially Disabled Workers
This study provides insight in the responsiveness of disabled workers to financial incentives, using administrative individual data from the Netherlands from 2006 to 2013. We focus on workers ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 202-215)
C52, H53
9623 Frederico S. Finan
Maurizio Mazzocco
Electoral Incentives and the Allocation of Public Funds
It is widely believed that politicians allocate public resources in ways to maximize political gains. But what is less clear is whether this comes at a cost to welfare; and if so, whether alternative ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (5), 2467–2512)
H40
9622 Wenhua Di
Daniel L. Millimet
Targeted Business Incentives and the Debt Behavior of Households
The empirical effects of place-based tax incentive schemes designed to aid low income communities are unclear. While a growing number of studies find beneficial effects on employment, there is little ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2017, 52 (3), 1115-1142)
C21, G02, H25, H31
9621 Lingguo Cheng
Hong Liu
Ye Zhang
Zhong Zhao
The Health Implications of Social Pensions: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme
This paper estimates the causal effect of income on health outcomes of the elderly and investigates underlying mechanisms by exploiting an income change induced by the launch of China's New Rural ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46, 53-77 )
H55, I12, I38, J14
9620 Emiko Usui
Satoshi Shimizutani
Takashi Oshio
Are Japanese Men of Pensionable Age Underemployed or Overemployed?
We investigate how Japanese men aged 60-74 adjust their workforce attachment after beginning to receive a public pension. Men who were employees at age 54 gradually move to part-time work or retire ...
(published in: Japanese Economic Review, 2016, 67 (2), 150 - 168)
J26, I10, H55
9619 Andrea Albanese
Bart Cockx
Yannick Thuy
Working Time Reductions at the End of the Career: Do They Prolong the Time Spent in Employment?
In this paper we study the effects on the survival rate in employment of a scheme that facilitates gradual retirement through working time reductions. We use information on the entire labour market ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 99–141 )
J14, C22, J18, J22
9618 Mathias Dolls
Karina Doorley
Alari Paulus
Hilmar Schneider
Sebastian Siegloch
Eric Sommer
Fiscal Sustainability and Demographic Change: A Micro Approach for 27 EU Countries
The effect of demographic change on the labor force and on fiscal revenues is topical in light of potential pension shortfalls. This paper evaluates the effect of demographic changes between 2010 and ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2017, 24 (4), 575-615 )
H68, J11, J21
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