least a 30% increase in monthly outflows out of unemployment into jobs. While aggregate ALMPs are positively associated with …This paper investigates the impact of active labour market policies (ALMPs) in the Czech Republic and Slovakia over the … Slovakia by more than two-thirds in 1993 - contributed to the divergence in labour market outcomes in the two countries. All …

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 …

labour markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe. It argues that a hasty ‘return to Europe’ with … respect to labour market policies may not be in the best interests of these economies, and may actually impede an efficient …

A common explanation of low unemployment rates in the Czech Republic (CR) is the stance of active labour market … unemployment into employment. … quarterly data from employment office districts, we estimate the effects of ALMPs on the job matching process in the CR. In so …

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 explores the optimal interaction between the tax system and unemployment compensation in insuring people … against the risks of involuntary unemployment and low ability. To that end, we introduce search unemployment in a model of … and the unemployment benefit) increases if, for efficient agents, the participation constraint (governing job search …

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 …

's model of equilibrium unemployment highlights the dynamics of labour markets as an important factor in the transformation …, and labour market institutions will determine the long-run unemployment rate. A brief survey of institutions reveals …This paper surveys the emerging labour markets of the transforming economies of Central and Eastern Europe. Pissarides …

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. …

This Paper analyses the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort … among the unemployed is not perfectly observable. We examine to what extent the optimal policy involves monitoring of search … featuring indefinite payments of benefits and a system with a time limit on unemployment benefit receipt. The optimal sanction …