abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its …

-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 …

such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …

This paper investigates unemployment persistence in the 27 EU member states by applying fractional integration methods … Belgium, Luxembourg and Malta, but this evidence disappears under the assumption of weakly correlated disturbances. More cases … of mean reversion are found instead when analysing the unadjusted series. In particular, countries such as Belgium …

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 …

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 …

We verify whether an income support policy for part-time workers in Belgium increases the transition from unemployment …

This paper assesses whether short-lived jobs (lasting one quarter or less and involuntarily ending in unemployment) are …