-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 …

The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age … and we show that higher minimum wage can raise aggregate employment. Expansion in the non-traded sector following a wage …

profits, involuntary unemployment and within-group wage inequality in a unified framework. We use this model to investigate … simultaneous increase of average profits and involuntary unemployment as well as a surge in within-group wage inequality …

risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …

random assignment of job seekers to caseworkers. We find that the duration of un- and non-employment both decrease by 3% if … small negative effects on job stability, reducing the duration of re-employment spells by 0.3% per required application. We … find a zero effect on re-employment wages …

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …

unemployed declined after the reform. These patterns suggest that the reform of unemployment benefits may be one of the reasons …We investigate whether a cut in unemployment benefit payout periods affected older workers’ labor market transitions … behind the recent incredible rise in old age employment in Germany. …

wages. We estimate a negative connection between establishments’ wage cyclicality and their employment cyclicality, thereby …