TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Cockx, Bart
AU  - Belle, Eva Van
        TI  - Waiting Longer Before Claiming, and Activating Youth: No Point?
        PY  - 2016/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10221
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10221
        AB  - In Belgium school-leavers are entitled to unemployment benefits after a waiting period and eligible to intensified counselling and training in the Youth Work Plan (YWP) if a job is not found within three months. The length of the waiting period and eligibility to the YWP are sharply determined by two distinct age thresholds. These are exploited to estimate the impact of these policies on the transition rate to employment and on the quality of work. Both policies increase job finding only slightly and insignificantly. The accepted wage is unaffected, but the number of working days falls and, hence, also earnings.
        KW  - youth unemployment
KW  - policy evaluation
KW  - regression discontinuity design
KW  - survival analysis
KW  - quality of employment
        ER  -