(carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job … seekers. The results show that "carrots" and "sticks" treatments prolong unemployment, but carrots increase earnings whereas …

abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …

In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment …

certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the … certain time in unemployment will leave unemployment before training while others will be trained later. We are interested in …

instantaneous features of participation such as, perhaps, the adoption of a more rigorous daily routine. Unemployment benefits …

of training for unemployed workers in France, using a rich register data set. Training has little impact on unemployment … probability is high. -- Treatment ; program participation ; unemployment duration ; training ; propensity score ; matching …

in France. We use a rich administrative register of unemployment and training spells as well as the information on local … labor demand that is used by unemployment agencies to allocate training programs. The results show that the average …

innovative survey data. The administrative part of the dataset consists of a large random sample of inflows into unemployment in …,000 individuals who entered unemployment between June 2007 and May 2008. They were initially interviewed shortly after becoming …

unemployment to employment using detailed Danish event history data obtained from administrative registers. We find large positive … the transition rate to work does not depend on the timing of the meeting. -- unemployment ; active labor market policy … ; unemployment duration ; treatment effects ; meetings ; job search assistance ; case worker …