. At the municipality level, we find a large reduction of long-term unemployment, and no negative employment spillovers …

increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …

makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether … conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits for education-leavers on age or schooling attainment can affect … educational achievements. The results show that the prospect of financial loss in case of unemployment can significantly raise …

Based on administrative data of unemployed in Belgium, we estimate the labour market effects of three training … considerably improve effectiveness: up to 20% more (less) time spent in (un)employment within a 30 months window. A shallow policy …

demand and reduced working hours so as to stabilize workers’ income. In a matching framework such an arrangement increases … labor demand. Tightening eligibility to short-time work benefits tends to reduce the wage while the impact on unemployment …

performance indicators (unemployment, long-term unemployment, employment, activity rate). Our results confirm that high taxes … increase unemployment, while active labour market policies tend to reduce it. We also show that stricter employment protection …

unemployment as well as across different subgroups of participants. We find that participating in short-term training reduces the … remaining time in unemployment and moderately increases job stability. Long-term training programs initially prolong the …This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human …