) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper discusses the mechanisms through which ALMPs affect (un)employment … open unemployment, but also reduced regular employment. The overall policy conclusion is that ALMPs of the scale used in …. There should be a greater emphasis on holding down long-term unemployment in general and a smaller emphasis on youth …

We exploit the exceptional variation in municipality-level unemployment and spending on labor market programs in Sweden … during the 1990s to identify the impact of unemployment and programs on crime. We identify a statistically significant effect … of unemployment on the incidence of overall crime, burglary, auto-theft and drug possession. A calculation suggests that …

programmes during their unemployment spell. Clustering of programmes to about half of the sample is prominent. The number of …. Descriptive inspection of how the unemployment spells end, shows that non-participants, i.e. workers with zero programmes …

of training for unemployed workers in France, using a rich register data set. Training has little impact on unemployment … probability is high. -- treatment ; program participation ; unemployment duration ; training ; propensity score ; matching …

. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a … be seen how future governments react to worsened economic conditions in light of these experiences. -- Unemployment …

force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are … ; labor market reforms ; participation ; unemployment ; disability …

; regression discontinuity ; selection ; job search assistance ; subsidized work ; youth unemployment …

market policy. We analyze its causal effects on the individual transition rate from unemployment to employment by exploiting …-parametric identification. The data cover the population and include multiple unemployment spells for many individuals. The results indicate a … diminishes after some weeks. When taking account of the time spent in the program, the effect on the mean unemployment duration …