This paper is the first to use program administrative data from Brazil's National Employment System (SINE) to assess …

This paper is the first to use program administrative data from Brazil's National Employment System (SINE) to assess …

This paper is the first to use program administrative data from Brazil's National Employment System (SINE) to assess …

unemployment, there is little comprehensive evidence about the effects of activation during recessions. Here we evaluate a large … activation programme introduced in Portugal in 2012, a time of very high unemployment. This programme required specific … unemployment benefit recipients to meet jobcentre caseworkers and then participate in active labour market policies. Our analysis …

unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced … effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit … the PEA could have had an even higher impact on unemployment reduction if there had been less focus on long …

We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job … search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of … benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across the board reduction in the replacement rate …

In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment …

of active labor market policies. For immigrants having stayed more than 4 years in Germany, however, we do not find a …