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 …

labour market policies (ALMPs) and firm performance using a new exceptionally informative German employer-employee data base …. For identification we exploit that German local employment agencies (LEAs) have a high degree of autonomy in determining … programs, in particular by subsidized employment and longer training programs. These findings complement the negative …

Subsidized employment is an important tool of active labour market policies to improve the chances of the unemployed to …. We also find that, compared to non-participation, both programmes are ineffective for unemployed who find jobs easily … anyway, as well as for those with short unemployment duration. For unemployed with potentially long unemployment duration and …

of typical active labour market programs for the unemployed. Such biases would lead to false policy conclusions about the … particularly important for selection correction. Moreover, it is important to account for past performance on the labour market in … a very detailed and flexible way. Information on job search behaviour, timing of unemployment and program start, as well …

This paper investigates the implications of budgetary policies for consumption and economic growth. We present a model … a rise in government debt, financed by lump-sum taxes, increases the share of private consumption to national income and … reduces the long-run growth rate. We also show that a rise in government consumption financed by lump-sum taxes reduces both …

jobs in the regular labour market that would otherwise not be taken up by the unemployed. We also find negative effects for … traditional employment programmes operated in sheltered labour markets. For training courses the results are mixed. …In the second half of the 1990s Switzerland introduced an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a …

natural rate of unemployment. In addition, because of differential inflation across countries, real exchange rates become …

We extend the `rational-partisan' model of inflation to allow for the effects of unemployment persistence on the … to the failure of political parties to precommit to price stability, in the light of unemployment persistence. Elections … are associated with higher inflation, with the exception of the Thatcher period. There is no evidence that the Labour …