This paper examines whether the Action Plan for Promoting Employment and Combating Unemployment, a labor market …

unemployment entries in 2002 and analyze the short- and long-term impacts for a variety of different programs. With informative …

Many countries have policies aimed at creating jobs in depressed areas with high unemployment rates. In standard … develop a stylized model of frictional local labor markets with the goal of studying the efficiency of unemployment … housing costs, and lower unemployment rates. Although workers can move freely to arbitrage away differences in expected …

efficient to intervene earlier in order to prevent long-term unemployment rather than to cure it, the climate of austerity in … of the unemployment spell. It comprises of a collective information session followed by a short one-on-one interview. In … in the first four months after the start of the unemployment spell, and the early intervention seems especially …

market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms …

driven by negative effects on unemployment and retirement insurance coverage. Our heterogeneity analysis reveals substantial …

unemployment, there is little comprehensive evidence about the effects of activation during recessions. Here we evaluate a large … activation programme introduced in Portugal in 2012, a time of very high unemployment. This programme required specific … unemployment benefit recipients to meet jobcentre caseworkers and then participate in active labour market policies. Our analysis …