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 …

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 …

In order to explore the optimal taxation of low-skilled labour, we extend the standard model of optimal non …-linear income taxation in the presence of quasi-linear preferences in leisure by allowing for in-voluntary unemployment, job search …, an exogenous welfare benefit, and a non-utilitarian social welfare function. In trading of more low-skilled employment …

jobs are permanent. We use a dataset on Slovenian unemployment spells to test this prediction and find supporting evidence …Putting a limit on the duration of unemployment benefits tends to introduce a "spike" in the job finding rate shortly … unemployed workers who rationally assume that employers will accept delays in the starting date of a new job, especially if these …

fired. Therefore a country with a high or an increasing unemployment rate has a low (reported) workplace accident rate. The … inversely related to both the level of unemployment and the change in unemployment. Furthermore, fatal accident rates do not …