increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …

makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether … conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits for education-leavers on age or schooling attainment can affect … educational achievements. The results show that the prospect of financial loss in case of unemployment can significantly raise …

collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and … entrants (disproportionately women, youth and immigrants) and the less skilled to temporary jobs or unemployment. …

considerably improve effectiveness: up to 20% more (less) time spent in (un)employment within a 30 months window. A shallow policy …

. At the municipality level, we find a large reduction of long-term unemployment, and no negative employment spillovers …

makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether … conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits for education-leavers on age or schooling attainment can affect … educational achievements. The results show that the prospect of financial loss in case of unemployment can significantly raise …

increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …

unemployment as well as across different subgroups of participants. We find that participating in short-term training reduces the … remaining time in unemployment and moderately increases job stability. Long-term training programs initially prolong the … remaining time in unemployment, but once the scheduled program end is reached participants exit to employment at a much faster …