unemployment and subsequent employment duration for the recipients is statistically significant for the short-term unemployed in …"This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using … month in unemployment increases their subsequent employment stability. This positive correlation between previous …

We combine two techniques to consistently estimate the effect of active labour market programmes and, in particular …, active labour market policy regimes. Our aim is to explicitly estimate the threat effect of active labour market programmes …. The threat effect is shown to reduce average unemployment duration by approximately three weeks. The implications of this …