The fight against unemployment has become one of the most important challenges that advanced European countries have faced in the last forty years. Economic literature suggests that the changes in labour market institutions - through the implementation of a set of flexibility measures -...

The third chapter estimates negative average effects of a Swiss job search programme for unemployed persons. Those who are send to the job search programme are significantly less likely to find a job quickly than comparable unemployed persons who do not participate in such a programme. Recent...