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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Unemployed Youths - Beware of Spillovers

Andrea Albanese, Bart Cockx and Muriel Dejemeppe

No 2022-09, LISER Working Paper Series from Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)

Abstract: We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high school graduates accumulated 2.8 quarters more private employment. However, because they substitute private for public and self-employment, overall employment does not increase but is still better paid. For high school dropouts, no persistent gains emerge. Moreover, the neighboring attraction pole of Luxembourg induces a complete deadweight near the border.

Keywords: Hiring subsidies; spillover effects; youth unemployment; displacement; cross-border employment; regression discontinuity design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 J08 J23 J24 J61 J64 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2022-10
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