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Is income support for part-time workers a steppingstone to regular jobs? An application to young long-term unemployed women

Bart Cockx, C. Goebel and Stéphane Robin
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Christian Göbel

Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium from Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Abstract: We verify whether income support for low-paid part-time workers in Belgium increases the transition from unemployment to non-subsidised, “regular” employment. Using a sample of long-term unemployed young women, whose labour market histories are observed from 1998 to 2001, we implement the “timing of events” method to control for selection effects. Our results suggest that the policy has a significantly positive effect on the transition to regular employment.

Keywords: Active labour market policies; Evaluation; Mixed Proportional Hazard Models Codes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 J64 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2009-01
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