2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …

administrative data from the Austrian unemployment registers which allow us to distinguish between caseworker assignment and actual …

associated with a more regulated labor market, lower unemployment benefit replacement rates, and a smaller tax wedge on labor. We …

Based on administrative registers from Norway, we examine how unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market … programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment and entrepreneurship. We find that the …

matching techniques, we analyse the effects of marginal employment on future individual outcome variables such as unemployment …, (ii) reduces future unemployment, (iii) slightly increases cumulated future earnings, on average, and (iv) is associated … with a small negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany. …

Limited availability of workfare programs and unemployment insurance and a large informal sector are features of the …

of the state (taxes and regulations), the general situation on the labor market, and unemployment are crucial for an …

effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific … professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into unemployment for the year 1993, the empirical analysis uses local … programs starting during 1 to 6, 7 to 12, and 13 to 24 months of unemployment. The empirical results show a negative lock …