-in-differences methodology, we find that the labor market participation rates of women with children decreased after the introduction of the …

studies the impact of the substantial change in Germany’s parental leave system on maternal employment. The aim of the reform … was to decrease birth-related maternal employment breaks by providing more generous parental benefits for a shorter period … childcare slots. Overall, I did not find significant changes in maternal employment during the first three years of motherhood …

Employment Transitions Survey. The theoretical results imply that after the introduction of PPL, hours of work in the pre …

This paper examines the impacts of recent Australian welfare to work reforms for low-income parents of school …-aged children who had been in receipt of Parenting Payment – the main welfare payment for this group – for at least one year …

the region. Given the unique features of the NBFZ, we estimate its short-run effects on labor outcomes: employment, wages … data at the municipality level for the period 2015-2019. Using administrative data for formal employment, we find that the … employment are less clear. Formal employment showed 1.6% less growth in the NBFZ than in the control municipalities, but the …

rate. Labor market deregulation, proxied by the employment protection legislation index, is detrimental to unemployment in …This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labor market regulations on unemployment using … set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is …

former prisoners: the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) and the Transitional Jobs Reentry … Demonstration (TJRD). The analysis assesses the effects of these programs on employment and recidivism. We find that the programs in … both studies led to a large increase in employment driven by the transitional jobs themselves. However, the programs did …

commentators have argued that the subsequent rise in unemployment exceeded previous estimates of the elasticity of the unemployment …-term estimate of Okun’s coefficient implying that the deviation in unemployment during the crisis resulted from a larger output gap … period utilized. Focusing more on short-term fluctuations, changes in unemployment are decomposed to identify the association …

This paper estimates the impact of fiscal consolidation on unemployment and job market flows across EU countries using … show that the impact of fiscal consolidation on cyclical unemployment is temporary and significant mostly for expenditure …-finding rate corresponds to a longer average duration of unemployment spells, fiscal policy shocks also tend to have a stronger …