This paper evaluates the effect of a voucher award system for assignment into vocational training on the employment … outcomes of unemployed voucher recipients in Germany, along with the causal mechanisms through which it operates. It assesses … negative short term and positive long term employment effects of voucher award are mainly driven by actual training …

A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor … 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates … causally link our empirical findings to the reduction in long-term unemployment benefits using a heterogeneous-agent labor …

impact of employment protection laws (EPL) on job content. Economic theories predict that stricter protection increases … raise their hiring and promotion standards for permanent jobs. Both of these mechanisms predict higher levels of job content … in permanent than in temporary jobs; further, it is predicted that stricter EPL increases the gap in job content between …

This paper investigates the effect of sanctions of unemployment insurance benefits on the exit rate from unemployment … for a sample of Danish unemployed. According to the findings are that even moderate sanctions have rather large effects … the effect of sanctions wear out after around 3 months and that particular groups of unemployed are more responsive to …

potential indirect effect on employment stability through a more efficient matching process, as the unemployed can search for a … evidence on the effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment and employment duration in Europe, using individual data from … per cent increase relative to the average employment duration, compensating for the additional time spent in unemployment …

2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … and employment. There is some evidence that short-time compensation programs stabilize permanent employment and reduce … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …

, in speeding up the matching process between unemployed and vacant jobs. The analysis is conceptually rooted in the flow … market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms …