sort of paradigm shift that goes beyond active labor market policies and public direct job creation in favor of allowing …

well-defined group of highly educated job-seekers (unemployed holding a university degree). Our findings suggest, first …

Empirically, not much is known about the mechanisms how labor market programs like job search assistance and training … operate to support finding a job. This paper provides novel evidence to open the "blackbox": it causally links the program … older job seekers, turns out to increase the job finding of participants by 9 percentage points (72% vs. 63% in the control …

This paper uses a large-scale two-level randomized experiment to study direct and displacement effects of job search … displacement leading to higher unemployment for the non-treated. By using detailed information on caseworker and job seeker … behavior we show that vacancy referrals passed on from caseworkers to job seekers is the driving mechanism behind the positive …

automation is reducing the job finding probability; a problem which has increased over the past years. We show that this … development is associated with increasing re-employment wages and job stability. Taken together, our findings imply a trade off … on the job finding rate but we find mixed effects in terms of post-unemployment wages. …

We examine the impact of scrapping entitlement to unemployment insurance (UI) on job finding and employment of young … exploit a policy change that restricted access to UI for two groups of job seekers in 2015: university graduates aged 25 and … announced, many job seekers realized that they were not eligible anymore for UI by the end of their waiting period. We use a …

developments such as using “click data” on job searches and advanced machine learning techniques. Also discussed are the …