Extending Working Lives–Sticks and Carrots to Get the Older Unemployed Back into Employment

Coaching, Counseling, Case-Working: Do They Help the Older Unemployed out of Benefit Receipt and back into the Labor Market?

Job search assistance and intensified counseling have been found to be effective for labor market integration by a large number of studies, but the evidence for older and hard-to-place unemployed individuals more specifically is mixed. In this paper we present key results from the evaluation of “Perspektive 50plus”, a large-scale active labor market program directed at the older unemployed in G...

Does subsidised temporary employment get the unemployed back to work ? An econometric analysis of two different schemes

Comments very welcome Addresses for correspondence Michael Gerfin Michael Lechner, Heidi Steiger Department of Economics Swiss Institute for International Economics and University of Bern Applied Economic Research (SIAW), University of St. Gallen Gesellschaftsstr. 49, CH-3012 Bern Dufourstr. 48, CH-9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland [email protected] [email protected], Heidi.Steiger@...

Does subsidised temporary employment get the unemployment back to work?

Employed Unemployed? On Shadow Employment In Transition

Evidence on whether people in shadow employment are there due to tax evasion reasons or because of the limited access to formal labour market is thus far mixed. Consistent with the first view, people with informal employment are actually experiencing higher wages than their formally employed counterparts’ ceteris paribus. Conversely, if barriers to access exist, one should expect “grey” wages t...

Transitions out of and back to employment among older men and women in the UK

This paper presents the first comprehensive analysis of older men and women’s labour market transitions in the United Kingdom using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), 1990–2004. When looking at the empirical hazard rates, I find large peaks in the exit rates out of employment at ages 60 (women) and 65 (both sexes) which occur in the exact birthday month. This points towards st...