Public Employment Service (PES) agencies and caseworkers (CW) often have substantial leeway in the design and …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job …

Public Employment Service (PES) agencies and caseworkers (CW) often have substantial leeway in the design and …) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations, employment, and postunemployment …

employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs …, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance, and employment subsidies. The results are remarkably uniform across studies. We …

education shows positive effects for the unemployed with respect to both the employment probability and wages. To explain the …

structural estimates to compare monitoring to counterfactual policies against moral hazard, like re-employment bonuses and …

In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment … this. The results show that IAs early in the spell have on average a small positive effect on entering employment within a … adverse prospects. Among them, being assigned to an early IA increases the probability of re-employment within a year from 45 …

Integration Agreement (IA) are contracts between the employment agency and the unemployed, nudging the latter to comply … individual baseline employability. A small positive effect on entering employment is driven by individuals with adverse prospects …. For them, early IA increase re-employment within a year from 45% to 53%. …

Amongst the active labor market policy programs for the unemployed in Sweden, the vocational employment training … employment using a unique set of administrative data and a novel empirical approach that exploits variation in the timing of …