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© 1998 Oxford University Press

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Active labour market policies and job tenure

Bart Cockx*, Bruno Van der Linden{dagger}, and Adel Karaa{ddagger}

* Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales, Département des Sciences Economiques, Université Catholique de Louvain Belgium
{dagger} Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique and Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales, Département des Sciences Economiques, Université Catholique de Louvain 3 place Montesquieu, 1348 Louvain–la–Neuve, Belgium
{ddagger} Human Capital and Mobility fellow at the Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales during the research presented in this paper

In this paper, we study the effect of subsidised on-the-job training, training for the unemployed and pure wage subsidies on job tenure. Correcting for selection biases, we find that each of the labour market policies increases the length of job tenure. Despite the sensitivity of the estimates to the parametric assumptions with respect to the unobservables, the effect of subsidised on-the-job training schemes is always found to be significantly positive. Training programs for the unemployed and pure wage subsidies always have a positive, but statistically non-significant effect Our results provide some support for human capital theories as opposed to matching theories.


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