(carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job … seekers. The results show that "carrots" and "sticks" treatments prolong unemployment, but carrots increase earnings whereas …

) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations, employment, and postunemployment … intensive carrots and sticks regimes each reduce unemployment durations, but with carrots regimes this raises earnings whereas …

This paper identifies the effect of variation in government-backed loan supply on unemployment exploiting regional …. This variation helps disentangling supply from demand effects. Higher loan supply reduces unemployment. Increasing the … between CHF 39,700 and CHF 52,400 per year. These costs are somewhat lower than unemployment benefits associated with the …

Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we …Swiss policy makers created a unique link between unemployment benefits and Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) by … making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of …

In the second part of the 1990's Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a … potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses unusually informative data origi-nating from administrative unemployment …

Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we …Swiss policy makers created a unique link between unemployment benefits and Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) by … making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of …