In this paper we evaluate the efficacy of Public Employment Services in Italy (PESs) in increasing the unemployment to …

This paper develops a joint evaluation of vocational training and unemployment insurance. This allows to analyze how … these schemes. The net effect of these training programs appears to be gloomy. However, their impact on employment can be …

This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the … Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …

unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data. Labor market imperfections are found to significantly increase the volume of … to investigate how demographic asymmetriesmay have contributed to unemployment and welfare changes in the recent past …

that reason, a policy increasing the social capital of the disadvantaged workers can increase the unemployment rate and …

unemployment. Wages, labor demand and participation are endogenous. The government only observed wage levels. Under a Maximin … is increasing, marginal tax rates are positive everywhere, while wages, unemployment rates and participation rates are …

We investigate how continental European unemployment can be reduced without reducing unemployment benefits and without … reducing the net income of low-wage earners. Lower unemployment replacement rates reduce unemployment, the net wage and … unemployment benefits. A lower tax on labour increases net wages and - for certain benefit-systems - unemployment benefits as well …

on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …

unemployment rate, the rate of capacity utilisation and the proportion of firms reporting demand constrains from a union …