With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate …

most effective program to bring down unemployment. Public employment services have some impact while subsidized jobs are …We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of different types of active labour market policies (ALMP). In our … empirical analysis we use data on 20 OECD countries covering the time period 1985-99. We find that labour market training is the …

. Young workers are the most affected by the Great Recession both in terms of unemployment rates as well as employment rates … with the 1980s recession it is concluded that there is a high cross-country correlation of the unemployment rates over the …. For prime age workers employment rates were also affected but for older workers the Great Recession did not have a large …

performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

Employment protection is often related to costs incurred by firms when they fire a worker. The stability of the … employment relationship, enhanced by employment protection, is also favourable to the productivity of the job. We analyse … employment protection focusing on this trade-off between adjustment costs and productivity. We show that from a welfare point of …

This Paper presents the results of an experimental study on unemployment benefit sanctions. The experimental set … that discourage the unemployed from risking benefit sanctions (the ex ante effect). We find that both effects matter … outflow from unemployment. …

We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job … originates from the increased effectiveness of labour supply. We advocate that for a given loss in welfare for the unemployed … search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro-effects concerning the behaviour of …

also find that the quality of the post-unemployment jobs was not affected by the activation program. Both findings confirm …In an experimental setting some Danish unemployed workers were assigned to an activation program while others were not …. Unemployed who were assigned to the activation program found a job more quickly. We show that the activation effect increases …

effect on the exit rate out of unemployment – both to employment and to other destinations – at various durations of … unemployment spells and for many categories of unemployed workers. …This paper investigates the disincentive effects of the potential duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. The …