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 …

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 …

of capital for investments in jobs, which harms the position of job seekers, including new entrants to the labour market …

cost of capital for investments in jobs. Third, making shareholders the ultimate owner of the firm provides the best …

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 …

'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 …

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …, contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to 40 percent of the missing employment decline in the recession. Another 20 …

Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in … additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment … lower amount of market work in areas of long-term high unemployment is offset by additional household production. In …

factor substitution between labour and polluting resources, a shift towards greener preferences boosts employment if labour … policy and involuntary unemployment are derived within a second-best framework in which lump-sum taxes and subsidies are not … available and labour supply is rationed due to a rigid consumer wage. In the absence of factor substitution more environmental …