Income support policies for part-time workers: a stepping-stone to regular jobs ? An application to young long-terme unemployed women in Belgium

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

No 2006050, Discussion Papers (ECON - Département des Sciences Economiques) from Université catholique de Louvain, Département des Sciences Economiques

Abstract: We verify whether an income support policy for part-time workers in Belgium increases the transition from unemployment to non-subsidised, “regular” employment. Using a sample of 8630 long-term unemployed young women, whose labour market history is observed from 1998 to 2001, we implement the “timing of events approach proposed byAbbring et Van den Berg (2003) to control for selection effects. Our results suggest that the policy has a significantly positive effect on the transition to non-subsidised employment when one does not control for unobserved heterogeneity. This effect remains positive, but becomes insignificant, when one corrects for selection on unobservable characteristics.

Keywords: Active labour markets policies; Evaluation; Mixed Proportional Hazard Models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 J64 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20
Date: 2006-12-01
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Working Paper: Income Support Policies for Part-Time Workers: A Stepping-Stone to Regular Jobs? An Application to Young Long-Term Unemployed Women in Belgium (2006)
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