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The hidden sector : just transitions to the formal economy

2026

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Beyond the wage channel : climate-smart public works programmes and household resilience in Malawi

Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu; Burchi, Francesco; Schubert, Sophia - 2026

One of the main arguments for implementing public works programmes (PWPs) instead of other social protection schemes such as cash transfers is that the assets created through these programmes themselves can generate medium- to long-term benefits. This is particularly important as the costs for...

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Shifting employment : labor challenges in czechia, hungary and slovakia beyond the pandemic

Poór, József; Engle, Allen D.; Jenei, Szonja; … - 2026

The employment and labor market landscape has undergone significant transformations globally, including the three Central European countries examined in this study. Over the past decades, organizations in this region have transitioned from a state of full employment to labor shortages, raising...

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Optimal short-time work policy in recessions

Stiepelmann, Gero - 2026

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Reintegrating older long-term unemployed workers : the impact of temporary job guarantees

Ahammer, Alexander; Halla, Martin; Heckl, Pia; … - 2026

Long-term unemployment among older workers is particularly difficult to overcome. We study the impacts of a large-scale job guarantee program that offered up to two years of fully subsidized employment to long-term unemployed individuals aged 50 and above. Using a sharp age-based discontinuity...

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Reintegrating older long-term unemployed workers : the impact of temporary job guarantees

Ahammer, Alexander; Halla, Martin; Heckl, Pia; … - 2026

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Reintegrating older long-term unemployed workers : the impact of temporary job guarantees

Ahammer, Alexander; Halla, Martin; Heckl, Pia; … - 2025

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Reintegrating older long-term unemployed workers : the impact of temporary job guarantees

Ahammer, Alexander; Halla, Martin; Heckl, Pia; … - 2025

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Reintegrating older long-term unemployed workers : the impact of temporary job guarantees

Ahammer, Alexander; Halla, Martin; Heckl, Pia; … - 2025

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Reintegrating older long-term unemployed workers : the impact of temporary job guarantees

Ahammer, Alexander; Halla, Martin; Heckl, Pia; … - 2025

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Subsidy for the first hires and firm performance

Deng, Haotian; Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart; Bijnens, Gert - 2026

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Subsidy for the first hires and firm performance

Deng, Haotian; Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart; Bijnens, Gert - 2026

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Subsidy for the first hires and firm performance

Deng, Haotian; Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart; Bijnens, Gert - 2026

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Subsidy for the first hires and firm performance

Deng, Haotian; Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart; Bijnens, Gert - 2026

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Subsidy for the first hires and firm performance

Deng, Haotian; Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart; Bijnens, Gert - 2026

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Subsidy for the first hires and firm performance

Deng, Haotian; Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart; Bijnens, Gert - 2026

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Investigating the impact of integration agreements on labor market outcomes for welfare recipients : a randomized controlled trial

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Bernhard, Sarah; Stephan, Gesine; … - 2026

Integration agreements (IA) outline the efforts the jobseeker should undertake to find employment and specify the services that the caseworker would provide to assist them in their job search. The agreements include a declaration of legal consequences, and punitive benefit sanctions could be...

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Investigating the impact of integration agreements on labor market outcomes for welfare recipients : a randomized controlled trial

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Bernhard, Sarah; Stephan, Gesine; … - 2024

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Investigating the impact of integration agreements on labor market outcomes for welfare recipients : a randomized controlled trial

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Bernhard, Sarah; Stephan, Gesine; … - 2024

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The Welfare Implications of Job Retention Schemes

Bluedorn, John - 2026

This paper examines the welfare implications of job retention schemes, where governments subsidize employers to preserve jobs during downturns. Using EU microdata from 2003 to 2018, we show that such schemes are associated with lower job separation rates, especially among lower-productivity...

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Bridging Skill Gaps for the Future : New Jobs Creation in the AI Age

Jaumotte, Florence - 2026

The demand and supply of new skills—especially in IT and AI—are reshaping labor markets, impacting wages and hiring. About one in ten job vacancies in advanced economies demands at least one new skill, often appearing first in the United States. The incidence is about half in emerging...

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Wage Subsidies to Promote Female Hiring : Evidence from Pakistan

Bussolo, Maurizio; Lee, Jean; Mahmud, Mahreen; Sarma, … - 2026

Can employer-side wage subsidies increase hiring women in low female labor force participation settings? This paper tests this using a randomized experiment with 1,227 Pakistani firms on a national jobs platform. Treatment firms were offered a six-month wage subsidy determined via the...

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Een kwestie van lange adem : historische analyse van het beleid op het terrein van het lerarentekort

Cörvers, Frank; Somers, Melline; Aa, Ruud van der; … - 2026

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The impact of labour policy on productivity and wages in South Africa : a review of the literature

Mlatsheni, Cecil - 2026

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Language skills and labor market outcomes of immigrants in Europe

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Girisken, Ahmet - 2026

This paper studies the causal impact of language skills on human capital accumulation, labor market outcomes, and job characteristics of childhood immigrants across European countries. Using PIAAC data, we adopt an instrumental variable strategy based on the critical age hypothesis and...

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The labor market impacts of fair work legislation

Gruber, Anja - 2026

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On the Road to Recovery : Addressing Ukraine’s Transport Labor Shortages

Kurshitashvili, Nato; Lungu, Elena; Hoftijzer, Margo; … - 2026

This study provides an assessment of Ukraine’s transport workforce and skills landscape during a period of profound change. As maritime and air routes remain suspended, road freight, road passenger, and urban public transport have become the backbone of domestic and international mobility, and...

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Minimum wages and provision of training

Zigova, Katarina; Zwick, Thomas - 2026

We find a substantial and long-lasting positive effect of the introduction of regional minimum wages on training incidence and intensity. We apply a stacked difference-in-differences estimation to identify the dynamic effect of high minimum wages introduced in several Swiss cantons between 2018...

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Social protection policy in Colombia

Meléndez Arjona, Marcela; Peña-Tenjo, Nicolás; … - 2026

Colombia has a complex legal framework meant to protect the population against basic risks through a combination of contributory and non-contributory social insurance. The population is almost perfectly split between them, with eligibility to participate in the latter determined by poverty....

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Conclusion: comparative insights from a decade of Iberian labour market reforms

Branco, Rui Miguel C.; Marques, Paulo; Carmo, Renato … - 2026

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Short-time work and unemployment : long-term effects on workers' labor-market outcomes, time use and life satisfaction

Schäper, Clara; Wrohlich, Katharina; Zinn, Sabine - 2026

Many countries use job-retention schemes, such as short-time work (STW), to stabilize the labor market during economic downturns. While these schemes might prevent unemployment (UE) and its adverse effects on workers, STW could also deter workers from moving to more productive firms, thereby...

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Counterfactual impact evaluation of cohesion policy 2014-2020 : regression discontinuity design

Daminger, Alexander; Huber, Peter; Nowotny, Klaus - 2026

This paper evaluates EU Cohesion Policy interventions during 2014-2020 using regression discontinuity design (RDD), exploiting funding thresholds at 75 and 90 percent of EU average GDP per capita across 281 NUTS-2 regions. The analysis examines nominal and real GDP per capita growth, GDP per...

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The wide-ranging effects of active labour market policies in Slovenia : Lessons learnt and implications for other countries

2026

This policy brief summarises the results of a comprehensive counterfactual impact evaluation and cost-benefit analysis of Slovenia's four main active labour market policies (ALMPs). The scope of the evaluation extends beyond the labour market outcomes typically examined in such evaluations: in...

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Strengthening Individualised Support for Jobseekers Furthest from the Labour Market in Greece

2026

Providing jobseekers furthest from the labour market with better opportunities to participate in employment is a key policy objective across OECD countries. This report, the twenty-first in the OECD's Connecting People with Jobs series, examines how digital tools and complementary services can...

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Social protection in Bangladesh : policies, practices, and lessons

Raihan, Selim; Khan, Fariha - 2026

Evolving from post-independence emergency relief to a diverse range of programmes addressing poverty, food insecurity, and lifecycle vulnerabilities, Bangladesh has made significant progress in social protection provision over the years. This paper critically examines the evolution, coverage,...

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After the wreckage : the job guarantee as a new labor standard

Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2026

The job guarantee (JG) has long been theorized as a cyclical stabilizer, a buffer stock of publicly employed workers that expands in downturns and contracts in booms. That framing was useful but is no longer sufficient. This paper reframes the JG as a permanent structural reform - a new labor...

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The effects of training under the employment adjustment subsidy during the COVID-19 pandemic : evidence from Japan

Higashi, Yudai; Sasaki, Masaru - 2026

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Stepping stone or exit path : experimental evidence on training the long-term unemployed

Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Bolvig, Iben - 2026

This study estimates the effects of an employment programme for disadvantaged unemployed individuals. The programme emphasized on-the-job training and contracting the unemployed for a few paid work hours as a stepping stone into the labour market. Evaluated through a randomised controlled trial,...

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Stepping stone or exit path : experimental evidence on training the long-term unemployed

Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Bolvig, Iben - 2026

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Government employment shocks, policy coordination, and debt structure

Kim, Hyeongwoo; Zhang, Ren; Zhang, Shuwei - 2026

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From early exit to retention : employers and the reconfiguration of active ageing policy

Turek, Konrad; Henkens, Kène - 2026

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Search costs, belief formation, and firm hiring : evidence from a hiring intervention in Ethiopia

Wu, David Qihang; Wang, Sam Zicheng - 2026 - This version: August 2025

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Labor market impacts of an internship program on people with disabilities

Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Castillo, Victoria; … - 2026

This paper examines the impact of an internship program in Argentina (Programa Primer Paso; PPP) on the formal employment trajectories of people with disabilities (PwD). Using administrative data from 2002 to 2023 and a staggered difference-in-differences design, we estimate that program...

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A randomized experiment on improving job search skills of older unemployed workers

Groot, Nynke de; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2026

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A randomized experiment on improving job search skills of older unemployed workers

Groot, Nynke de; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2026

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A randomized experiment on improving job search skills of older unemployed workers

Groot, Nynke de; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2026

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Evaluierung III des Förderprogramms "Wirtschaft integriert" in Hessen : Ausbildungsbegleitung ABplus

Kuse, Stefan; Frings, Kerstin; Trabert, Lioba - 2026

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Women Entrepreneurs Leading the Way to More and Better Jobs for Women

Gomez, Norma; Siegrist, Felicia - 2026

This brief explores the role of women entrepreneurs in job creation, focusing on how women‑owned firms contribute to women’s employment. Using data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES) covering formally registered firms across 168 economies over 19 years, the analysis shows that...

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Can a Digital Job Search Coach Reduce Unemployment? Experimental Evidence from France

Ben Dhia, Aïcha; Crépon, Bruno; Mbih, Esther; … - 2026

This paper evaluates the impact of Bob Emploi, a digital platform designed to provide personalized job search advice and coaching to the unemployed. The platform, developed by a nonprofit organization with access to France’s public employment agency data, aims to replicate traditional...

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Bhutan Development Update, Spring 2026 : Special Focus - Transforming Bhutan’s Agrifood System for More and Better Jobs

2026

Bhutan’s economy is projected to maintain strong growth over the medium term, driven primarily by hydropower development and sustained capital investment, although rising youth unemployment and higher oil prices linked to the Middle East conflict present growing challenges. Real GDP growth is...

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Scaling the Atlas : Growth and Jobs for a Prosperous Morocco

2026

This Country Growth and Jobs Report is conceived as an analytical contribution to support Morocco in realizing the ambitions of its New Development Model (NDM). Issued in 2021 by a Special Commission convened by His Majesty King Mohammed VI, the NDM articulated a bold and coherent vision for...

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Promoting Skills Development and Employment in Ukraine : A Review of Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) Effectiveness

Honorati, Maddalena; Gomez Tamayo, S.; Kupets, O. - 2026

The purpose of this review is to inform policy decisions on how Ukraine can strengthen the effectiveness of Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) to support economic recovery by supporting skills development that match labor demand, tailoring employment services to jobseekers with special needs,...

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Jordan's employment and unemployment : key insights from labour market panel survey

Al-Masaeid, Mohammad - 2026

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Beyond full employment : Keynes and Kalecki on our economic future

Spencer, David A. - 2026

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Macroeconomic aspects of unemployment benefits : evaluating the Danish policy

Thomsen, Simon Fløj; Raza, Hamid; Byrialsen, Mikael Randrup - 2026

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Optimal job retention

Challe, Edouard; Rulan, Astrid - 2026

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Can subsidized employment tackle long-term unemployment? : experimental evidence from North Macedonia

Armand, Alex; Carneiro, Pedro; Tagliati, Federico; Xia, … - 2026

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Can subsidized employment tackle long-term unemployment? : experimental evidence from North Macedonia

Armand, Alex; Carneiro, Pedro; Tagliati, Federico; Xia, … - 2020

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Can subsidized employment tackle long-term unemployment? : experimental evidence from North Macedonia

Armand, Alex; Carneiro, Pedro; Tagliati, Federico; Xia, … - 2020

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Can Subsidized Employment Tackle Long-Term Unemployment? Experimental Evidence from North Macedonia

Armand, Alex - 2020

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Can Subsidized Employment Tackle Long-term Unemployment? Experimental Evidence from North Macedonia

Armand, Alex - 2020

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Special NEETs : institutional influences on school-to-work transitions of young people with disabilities in europe

Blanck, Jonna M.; Brzinsky-Fay, Christian; Powell, … - 2026

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The evolution of the structure of employment and job quality in Jordan : 2010-2025

Asʿad, Rāǧī; Khraise, Lina - 2026

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Firms as intermediaries in social policy : evidence from Japan’s 2005 employer mandate for work-childcare support

Fukai, Taiyo; Hara, Hiromi - 2026

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Lutter contre la précarité professionnelle par une économie plus inclusive

2026

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Conditional cash transfers on the labor market : evidence from young French jobseekers

Chiodi, Vera; Crépon, Bruno; John, Anett - 2026

Youth participation in employability programs is usually low. This paper studies the first pure test of a randomized conditional cash transfer linked to participation in labor activation measures: young, unskilled jobseekers in France receive a monthly cash transfer for a two-year period...

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A job i like or a job i can get : designing job recommender systems using field experiments

Bied, Guillaume; Caillou, Philippe; Crépon, Bruno; … - 2026

Recommendation systems (RSs) are increasingly used to guide job seekers on online platforms, yet the algorithms currently deployed are typically optimized for predictive objectives such as clicks, applications, or hires, rather than job seekers' welfare. We develop a job-search model with an...

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From training to self-employment : evidence from youth agricultural programmes in Cameroon and Madagascar

Zucchini, Emanuele; Sadania, Clémentine; Steiner, Susan; … - 2026

Youth employment remains a critical issue in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study examines the impact of two large-scale governmental programmes in Cameroon and Madagascar that aim to promote self-employment in agriculture. Youth participated in vocational training and received technical support,...

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Managing stigma and perpetuating ableism : how frontline workers navigate disclosure when encouraging employers to hire disabled people

Lundberg, Camilla Stub; Solvang, Per Koren - 2026

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