paper then presents new suggestive evidence to quantify the employment impacts of various counter-cyclical policies … introduced during this time. We conduct a counter-factual and find that employment would have been between 4.2 percent and 4 … Credits increased the likelihood of employment by about 4.7 percent for disconnected youth but had no effect on disabled and …

in countries with stringent employment protection legislation and a high degree of downward nominal wage rigidity. STW …-up measure in the micro data to aggregate data on employment and output trends, we show that sectors with a high STW take …-up exhibit significantly less cyclical variation in employment. …

rarely been studied in Japan. The program increases employment, especially in the agricultural, retail trade, and service …

increasing employment. Interestingly, the positive effects of these policies seem to be particularly beneficial for the low …

and helps to preserve jobs in the context of a recession by making employment and unemployment less elastic with respect …, the net effect of STW on employment was negligible or may even have become negative. However, the gross impact of STW on …

stabilise employment. For employment schemes, results before the Hartz reforms imply mostly negative average treatment effects … on regular employment outcomes of the treated, while results are mostly positive after introducing the reforms. During …

insurance on steady-state employment, the short-term effects of benefit reforms are not well-established. This paper contributes …

evidence on the impact of ALMPs on employment and unemployment rates. This is followed by a review of the key lessons from …

little effect on the number of hires, the hiring of jobseekers of unknown quality, or the stability of employment. Our …