multiple equilibria as a result of the fact that the reservation wage of the unemployed and the lowest production technology in …

Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals’ behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ …

. The data are from a randomized experiment conducted in the Netherlands. They include registers of post-unemployment … monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes. We find that the option to climb the job ladder reduces substitution between … search channels during unemployment and compensates for adverse long-run effects of monitoring on wages. We use the …

In this Paper we define and estimate measures of labour market frictions using data on job durations. We compare … we examine the policy effects of the minimum wage, unemployment benefits and search frictions. …

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …

program on aggregate labour market outcomes. This is done by calibrating an equilibrium search model with heterogeneous worker … skills using pre-program data and then forecasting the program impacts. We compare the forecasts to observed aggregate labour …

currently unemployed. We also allow for the composition of the inflow into unemployment to depend on calendar time at the moment …This paper examines the relation between individual unemployment durations and incidence on the one hand, and the time … aggregate unemployment duration data, in which we allow for unobserved heterogeneity and correlated measurement errors. We do …

We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labour market policies on individual labour market outcomes … like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill …-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance, and employment subsidies. The results are remarkably uniform across …