, open unemployment. Creating viable and lasting employment is vital to reduce poverty and spread prosperity in the region …

This paper assesses the effects of the Colombian Unemployment Subsidy (US), which includes benefits as well as training … their unemployment rates. The study also finds a small though statistically significant positive effect on beneficiaries …

Nacional de Empleo de Emergencia (PLANE). It is found that unemployment as conventionally defined may not be the most important … unemployment scarring consequences are relatively low, labor market regulations and labor market programs do not help to increase …

focus on unemployment. The main policies aimed at protecting workers against unemployment are analyzed. Using administrative … labor market. Finally, an impact evaluation of recent changes in the unemployment insurance program is presented. …

length of unemployment episodes after the training of the respondent, but also the duration of his/her employment spells. The …

differences across countries. In the major European countries, unemployment has increased dramatically over the past two decades …

Providing unemployment insurance is particularly problematic in countries with high informality because workers can … claim unemployment benefits and work in the informal sector at the same time. This paper proposes a method to evaluate … unemployment insurance savings account (UISA) scheme can be evaluated. The method is applied to Mexico, and the results show how …

expenditures on education and health; and (3) social indicators (inequality, unemployment, homicide rates, and schooling …