lower, when compared to Spain. This suggests that the hardship of being unemployed is higher in Portugal. Unemployment …, can explain this disparity. In this chapter we present some estimates of the loss of consumption suffered by unemployed …In Portugal real wage flexibility, at the macroeconomic level, is noticeably higher, while unemployment duration is …

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 …

This paper addresses the role played by Public Sector (PS) employment across different OECD labour markets in … gender differences in labour market transitions of workers among inactivity, unemployment, working in the PS and working in … female labour market outcomes. To do so, we provide some empirical evidence about cross-country gender differences in choice …

‘atypical’/temporary/part-time employment contracts for new entrants in the labour market. As a result, the incidence of … other countries. Secondly, we address the puzzle of why temporary employment in Spain remains so high, despite recent labour … contrast with other institutional reforms of the labour market, there seems to be a common strategy of maintaining strict …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We therefore model consumption and labor …