This paper discusses the potential introduction of permanent public subsidies to supplement the wages of low … market segmentation, and widespread in-work poverty. Using a stylized theoretical model, we illustrate how such subsidies … challenges for implementing wage subsidies in Italy's segmented labor market. …

We evaluate the impact of hiring subsidies for unemployed jobseekers in Wallonia, the Frenchspeaking region in the … south of Belgium. The special feature of these subsidies is that they are more readily available for low-educated youths … eligible. We exploit this difference in a regression discontinuity design and show that earlier access to subsidies does not …