The Effect of Maximum Unemployment Benefit Duration in Switzerland (2005)
This paper investigates the effect of a legislative move to reduce the maximum duration of unemployment benefits in Switzerland. The change took place in July 2003. It was hardly anticipated, sudden...
Michael Gerfin, Michael Lechner, Heidi Steiger
Not available in German. Subsidised employment is an important tool of active labour market policies to improve the chances of the unemployed to find permanent employment. Using informative...
European Data Watch - Swiss Unemployment Insurance Micro Data (2004)
Heidi Steiger, Jonathan Gast, Michael Lechner
Administrative data of the unemployment insurance system in Switzerland have been made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (seco) for specific research purposes. They...
Is less more? A look at nonparticipation in Swiss active labour market programmes (2004)
This paper addresses the question of how the evaluation results for the effectiveness of active labour market policies are sensitive to the definition and interpretation of the "nonparticipation"...
Markus Froelich, Michael Lechner, Heidi Steiger
Allocating people into social programmes on the basis of statistical tools has gained increasing acceptance in recent years. The need for better targeting of active labour market programmes recently...
Neues Auswahlinstrument steigert Wirksamkeit (2003)
Markus Froelich, Michael Lechner, Heidi Steiger
http://www.infopartner.ch/periodika_2003/Panorama/Heft_2_2003/pan3238.pdf
Gerfin, Michael, Lechner, Michael, Steiger, Heidi
Subsidised employment is one tool of active labour market policies to improve the chances of the unemployed to find permanent employment. Using informative individual data coming from various...
Michael Gerfin, Michael Lechner, Heidi Steiger
Subsidised employment is an important tool of active labour market policies to improve the reemployment chances of the unemployed. Using unusually informative individual data from administrative...
Gerfin, Michael, Lechner, Michael, Steiger, Heidi
Subsidised employment is an important tool of active labour market policies to improve the chances of the unemployed to find permanent employment. Using informative individual administrative data we...
Michael Gerfin, Michael Lechner, Heidi Steiger
Subsidised employment is an important tool of active labour market policies to improve the chances of the unemployed to find permanent employment. Using informative individual administrative data we...
Frölich, Markus, Lechner, Michael, Steiger, Heidi
The need for better targeting of active labour market programmes is evident from the many evaluation studies that find insignificant or even negative effects. A statistical system could contribute to...
Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner, Heidi Steiger
The need for better targeting of active labour market programmes is evident from the many evaluation studies that find insignificant or even negative effects. A statistical system could contribute to...