Liste di Mobilità is an Italian programme targeted to dismissed workers. It combines a 'passive' and an 'active' component. Eligibility duration varies with the worker's age at dismissal. Using a new panel data set, we identify the impact of extending the duration of eligibility on...

The 'Mobility Lists' programme handles collective redundancies, and combines income support to eligible dismissed employees with benefits to employers who hire them. Benefits vary according to dismissing firm size and are greater for older workers. We focus on the differential effects of...

We use information about job search and work preferences, typically collected in a labour force survey, in order to construct an indicator of 'choosiness' of the labour supply of job-seekers. The method for obtaining the indicator, first at individual level and then at aggregate levels, is based...

Questions about the impact of social policies cannot be answered solely on the basis of official statistics made available in tabular format. The access to microdata allows policy analysts to answer these questions with a larger set of analytical tools, in particular microsimulation models. This...