sanctions for young unemployed welfare recipients based on German administrative data. The German welfare system is particularly …

. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unem­ployment in the last two decades in combination with …

) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper discusses the mechanisms through which ALMPs affect (un)employment … open unemployment, but also reduced regular employment. The overall policy conclusion is that ALMPs of the scale used in … participation; (iii) subsidised employment seems to cause displacement of regular employment, whereas this appears not to be the …

Do governments increase public employment in election years? This paper investigates this question by using data from … statistically significant election year effect in local public employment, a production factor that is highly visible in the welfare …

employment; they are publicly employed (supply labor) and they have an important say in deciding the size of the municipal … employment (demand labor). In this paper we present and estimate a theoretical model that focuses on this double role of …

wage moderation to a combination of exogenous (primarily labor law and collective bargaining contracts) and endogenous …-term unemployment, and that labor market training tends to reduce the same stigma. We show that managers in small organizations have a …

Employment and wage subsidies are used to combat long-term unemployment, yet there is little research to guide the … study the effects on the probability of staying employed for those who find subsidized employment. Interestingly, the … positive employment effect of doubling the subsidy duration persists after the expiry of the employment subsidies. …

on firms’ employment behaviour. Seniority rules exist in several countries and, like Sweden, most European countries have … a more lenient employment protection for firms below a certain size. Despite the fact that small firms represent a large … share of all firms and stand for a substantial share of total employment, there is limited knowledge of how such exemption …

I examine if employment protection affects parental childcare. I find that a softer employment protection has a … easier for employers in Sweden to dismiss workers in small firms. I estimate that a softer employment protection reduces the …