job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells …

The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which … the unemployment rate decreased a lot. A common feature of the successful countries is that they implemented a …

appears that the activation program is very effective. The median unemployment duration of the control group is 14 weeks …

also find that the quality of the post-unemployment jobs was not affected by the activation program. Both findings confirm …

Swiss policy makers created a unique link between unemployment benefits and Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) by … making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of … Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we …

the most effective program to bring down unemployment. Public employment services have some impact while subsidized jobs …

fired. Therefore a country with a high or an increasing unemployment rate has a low (reported) workplace accident rate. The … inversely related to both the level of unemployment and the change in unemployment. Furthermore, fatal accident rated do not …