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 …

. Using the universe of buyer-supplier relationships in Belgium, the paper develops a set of stylized facts that motivate a …

Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the … abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its … at least a bachelor’s degree. However, the hiring subsidy mainly created temporary short-lived employment: eligible …

notification on the probability of employment. We find that the effect is heterogeneous and critically depends on whether and when …

Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of … a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor …

, desired working hours, and household debt, but have only small effects on expected spending. We provide correlational and … household exposure to stock market crashes for expectation formation …

across states shows that the rise in top income shares can explain almost all of the accumulation of household debt held as a … financial asset by the household sector. Since the Great Recession, the saving glut of the rich has been financing government …

. Information treatments about current and next year's interest rates have a strong effect on household expectations but treatments …