to show any impact on employment outcomes until the end of our observation period. Public sector job creation is found to …

courses, job search assistance and monitoring, subsidized employment, and public work programs. For policy makers, it is of … job search assistance (with and without monitoring) results in overwhelmingly positive effects, we find more mixed effects …

length of the transition to a stable job is around 30 months. Conversely, it is less than one year in the other countries … education, in order to detect its effectiveness in allowing young people finding a job sooner. …

sufficient re-employment prospects of a job-seeker. We comparatively examine the impact of participation for the quantitatively …

This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is … measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … role of job search assistance is to delay or prevent situations in which it is no longer optimal to incentivize the worker …

unemployment after program end we estimate the effect of keeping a subsidized job versus participating in training and taking up a … job immediately afterwards. The results strongly support the latter of our competing hypotheses: Previously subsidized … individuals and trained individuals who found a job immediately afterwards have the same employment rates. This leads to the …

recent recession, some UI recipients will have a difficult time finding a new job, while others will want to avoid going back …. In particular, strengthening job search requirements and increasing job search assistance would address both goals; the … or to accept job offers they might otherwise have rejected can also be effective. Finally, for individuals whose skills …

This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human … capital intensive training programs work. We evaluate and compare their effects on time until job entry, stability of … remaining time in unemployment and moderately increases job stability. Long-term training programs initially prolong the …

market. The additional analysis of the respondents´ subjective evaluation of the new job compared to the old job confirms the …

We structurally estimate a novel job search model with endogenous job search effort, job quality dispersion, and effort … monitoring, taking into account that monitoring effects may be mitigated by on-the-job search and search channel substitution …-unemployment outcomes like wages and job mobility, and survey data on measures of search behavior. As such we are the first to study …