best-performing EU countries. We find a general trade-off between an increase in employment for a particular group and the … income of the average group member relative to income per capita. Reforms that increase employment of low- and medium …-skilled workers imply a trade-off between employment and wages in the low- and medium-skilled group, due to the increase in the skill …

participation, which also leads to an increase in their employment probability. Our analysis considers within- and between …-effect). Furthermore, we demonstrate that partners’ employment in low-paid jobs has an effect on women’s labor market choices and outcomes …

attachment. Exploiting variation in labor market tightness across metropolitan areas, we show that the employment of populations … the employment of less attached workers when the central bank follows an average inflation targeting rule and when the …

motivational group workshops. We find that the program increased participants’ employment rate by 8 percentage points (a 24 … effects are larger among individuals with a lower attachment to the labor market and lower likelihood of employment such as … positive and significant effects on participants’ soft skills, mainly among those with no recent employment spell, who …

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

school graduates accumulated 2.8 quarters more private employment. However, because they substitute private for public and … self-employment, overall employment does not increase but is still better paid. For high school dropouts, no persistent …