sanctions for young unemployed welfare recipients based on German administrative data. The German welfare system is particularly …

This paper estimates the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on job finding rates and entry level wages for … unemployed high school leavers. Up to year 2007, Swedish high school-students who became unemployed shortly after graduation were … entitled to UI-benefits once they became 20 years of age. Therefore, the start of an unemployment spell relative to the 20:th …

mix to enhance the employability of the work disabled. Using rich longitudinal data, we follow unemployed young adults …. We follow these individuals up to four years after the start of unemployment. Our results indicate that, in spite of …. Having participated in workplace related programmes about doubles the likelihood of entering regular employment or education …

small effects of typical shocks to the number of unemployed. The employment effects are smaller in recessions than in booms …. Estimation of an employment equation using panel data for Swedish firms suggests that neither the number of unemployed nor the …According to search and matching theory, a greater availability of unemployed workers should make it easier for a firm …

We study the anatomy of responses to a major activation programme targeted at unemployed youth, introduced in Sweden in …

We evaluate a non-targeted summer youth employment program (SYEP) for high school students aged 16-19 in Stockholm … obtaining more qualified and fulltime employment after high school graduation. We argue that receiving a program job leads to …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante threat of sanctions. Based on a large inflow sample into unemployment … unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We estimate multispell …

We analyze unique data on three sources of information on the probability of re-employment within 6 months (RE6), for … the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were asked for their perceived probability of …

becoming unemployed, the duration of unemployment, or income. However, the results indicate that the program has a positive …Employment Security Agreements, which are elements of Swedish collective agreements, offer a unique opportunity to …, I investigate the effects of the individual counseling and job search assistance provided through the Employment …