Mobility Assistance Programmes for Unemployed Workers, Job Search Behaviour and Labour Market Outcomes

Abstract Unemployed workers in Austria do not lose their unemployment benefits (UI) if they work in a job where their earnings are below a certain threshold [‘marginal employment’ (ME)]. ME might improve their labour market status by signalling effort, or worsen it through reduced job-search effort. Those who work in ME while claiming UI have less employment and lower earnings afterwards than those who do not. The penalty lessens over time but is still present after three years.

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Does eliminating benefit eligibility requirements improve unemployed job search and labour market outcomes?

Applied Economics Letters ◽

10.1080/13504851.2021.1927960 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-4

Author(s):

Ruud Gerards ◽

Riccardo Welters

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Job Search ◽

Market Outcomes ◽

Labour Market Outcomes ◽

Eligibility Requirements

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Anonymity or Distance? Job Search and Labour Market Exclusion in a Growing African City

The Review of Economic Studies ◽

10.1093/restud/rdaa057 ◽

2020 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Girum Abebe ◽

Stefano Caria ◽

Marcel Fafchamps ◽

Paolo Falco ◽

Simon Franklin ◽

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Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Job Search ◽

Job Seekers ◽

African City ◽

Market Outcomes ◽

Positive Effects ◽

Job Application ◽

Short Run ◽

Labour Market Outcomes ◽

The Cost

Abstract We show that helping young job-seekers signal their skills to employers generates large and persistent improvements in their labour market outcomes. We do this by comparing an intervention that improves the ability to signal skills (the ‘job application workshop’) to a transport subsidy treatment designed to reduce the cost of job search. In the short-run, both interventions have large positive effects on the probability of finding a formal job. The workshop also increases the probability of having a stable job with an open-ended contract. Four years later, the workshop significantly increases earnings, job satisfaction, and employment duration, but the effects of the transport subsidy have dissipated. Gains are concentrated on individuals who generally have worse labour market outcomes. Overall, our findings highlight that young people possess valuable skills that are unobservable to employers. Making these skills observable generates earnings gains that are far greater than the cost of the intervention.

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Job Search With Legal and Illegal Workers: A Comparative Static Analysis

Economics and Business ◽

10.2478/eb-2020-0011 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 156-167

Author(s):

Lawrence Ogbeifun

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Static Analysis ◽

Immigration Policy ◽

Job Search ◽

Indirect Effect ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Comparative Statics ◽

Market Outcomes ◽

Comparative Static Analysis ◽

Labour Market Outcomes

AbstractThis paper incorporates government immigration policy variables in a job search and match framework to examine its implication on labour market outcomes. The main assumption is that illegal workers can be penalized by receiving lower equilibrium wages or face possible deportation; and government can regulate illegal workers by introducing a “caught variable”, η, in the model. By a comparative statics analysis, the study has revealed that changes in the wages of illegal workers have both direct and indirect effect on wages of legal workers. Also, an important finding is that η has positive impact on most of the labour market parameters considered in the study.

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Exploring gender digital divide and its effect on women's labour market outcomes in South Africa

African Journal of Gender, Society and Development (formerly Journal of Gender, Information and Development in Africa) ◽

10.31920/2634-3622/2020/v9n4a4 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 85-108

Author(s):

Kehinde Oluwaseun Omotoso ◽

Jimi Adesina ◽

Ololade G. Adewole

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Labour Market ◽

Married Women ◽

Internet Usage ◽

Market Participation ◽

Market Outcomes ◽

Broadband Internet ◽

Variable Approach ◽

Labour Market Participation ◽

Labour Market Outcomes

Technology plays a significant role in bridging gender gap in labour market outcomes. This paper investigates gender differential in broadband Internet usage and its effects on women‘s labour market participation. Employing an instrumental variable approach, findings suggest that exogenously determined high-speed broadband internet usage leads to increases of about 14.1 and 10.6 percentage points in labour market participation for single women and married women with some level of education, respectively. Moreover, further analyses suggest that married women are generally less likely to use the Internet to search for job opportunities and this could partly explains their low labour market participation rate. The findings suggest that more policy effort is required to bridge gender differentials in digital technologies and employment opportunities in South Africa.

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