"In Bureaucratic Manoeuvres, John Grundy examines profound transformations in the governance of unemployment in Canada. While policy makers previously approached unemployment as a social and economic problem to be addressed through macroeconomic policies, recent labour market policy reforms have...

Mehr als eine Dekade nach Einführung der Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende im Jahr 2005 zieht das IAB erneut Bilanz. Der Bericht bündelt die Ergebnisse der Wirkungsforschung zur Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende aus den Jahren 2013 bis 2016 und bietet somit eine Gesamtschau der in diesem...

We investigate the effects of meetings between the unemployed and their case workers on the transition rate from unemployment to employment using detailed Danish event history data obtained from administrative registers. We find large positive effects of meetings. The transition rate strongly...

Although activation services such as monitoring, training, or job subsidies have been shown to increase exits from unemployment, there is little comprehensive evidence about the effects of activation during recessions. Here we evaluate a large activation programme introduced in Portugal in 2012,...

Based on questionnaires conducted among PES organizations as well as Pacts and LEIs (Pacts/LEIs) in 40 cities of 12 EU member states and 2 non-EU member states - we take stock of the preconditions for conducting local labour market policies in an urban context in Europe and analyse the...

To which extent does an increase in effectiveness of a public employment agency on the one hand and a reduction of unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent labour market reform in Germany we find that an improved agency explains substantial part of the observed...