In this Paper, I analyse the pros and cons of implementing structural reforms of the labour market in booms versus …

We use three general equilibrium frameworks with jobs and unemployed workers to study the effects of government … mandated unemployment insurance (UI) and employment protection (EP). To illuminate the forces in these models, we study how UI … representative family model with employment lotteries has no labour market frictions and complete markets. The adverse welfare state …

people's employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced …

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 …

offices in choosing appropriate active labour market programmes for their unemployed clients. This statistical support system … unemployed person. The support system was piloted in several employment offices. In those pilot offices, half of the caseworkers …We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assist caseworkers in Swiss employment …

strategies even against the will of the unemployed person. They may assign job assignments and labour market programmes without …In many countries, caseworkers in a public employment office have the dual roles of counselling and monitoring … unemployed persons. These roles often conflict with each other leading to important case-worker heterogeneity: Some consider …

dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their caseworkers, we find positive employment effects of about 4 percentage points … caseworker and unemployed, does not lead to detectable effects on employment. These results, obtained by statistical matching …This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers …

workers, hazard rates of gaining employment in Europe fall off sharply with the duration of unemployment, and why displaced …Similar durations but lower flows into unemployment gave Europe lower unemployment rates than the United States until … the 1970's. But since 1980, higher durations have kept unemployment rates in Europe persistently higher than in the U.S. A …

changes in either labour taxes or in unemployment benefits to labours costs is larger the higher are those institutional … variables. The paper also considers the effects of those institutions on the choice of labour taxes and of unemployment benefits …This paper develops a framework for studying the interactions between labour unions, fiscal policy, monetary policy and …