-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy … increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high … school graduates accumulated 2.8 quarters more private employment. However, because they substitute private for public and …

indicator for the labour intensity of output growth the employment threshold (the minimum growth rate of output necessary to …This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on labour market performance. We analyse as an … keep employment constant). We show for a sample of 17 OECD countries for the period 1971 to 2002 that the strictness of …

This paper studies the labor market effects of a large employer-borne payroll tax cut for unemployed women, introduced … that the payroll tax cut generates long-lasting growth in female employment, reduces the time spent on welfare, and spurs … business growth, without crowding out male employment. By contrast, the tax cut does not raise net wages, suggesting that tax …

This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the … effects of institutions on unemployment. Our main results are that on the average a tighter employment protection, a higher … tax burden on labour income and a more generous unemployment insurance system increase, whereas a higher centralization of …

consumption as well as unemployment differentials. Following supply shocks, however, the cross-country transfer embodied in the …We assess to which degree an international transfer mechanism can enhance consumption risk sharing as well as … allocative efficiency and apply our results to the implicit transfers generated by a potential European unemployment benefit …

In July 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the Unemployment Insurance scheme. Workers claiming … unemployment benefits for more than 13 months are notified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later. In one … notification on the probability of employment. We find that the effect is heterogeneous and critically depends on whether and when …

Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline in unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved activation of unemployed … restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment …Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the …

This paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain … reaction theory of unemployment, which focuses on (a) the interaction among labor market adjustment processes, (b) the … growth drivers. Estimating a system of labor market equations for a panel of EU countries, we derive the dynamic unemployment …

indicator for the labour intensity of output growth the employment threshold (the minimum growth rate of output necessary to …This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on labour market performance. We analyse as an … keep employment constant). We show for a sample of 17 OECD countries for the period 1971 to 2002 that the strictness of …