unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced …By how much does an increase in operating effectiveness of a public employment agency (PEA) and a reduction of … effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit …

This paper studies the effect of two labor market institutions, unemployment insurance (UI) and job search assistance … search unemployment, skill depreciation during unemployment, and idiosyncratic as well as aggregate labor market risk. The …

Many countries suffer from persistently high unemployment rates. The scope for labour market reforms is often limited … boost employment both in the short run and the long run. Calibrating the model and comparing the results with recent … empirical findings about the impact of labour taxation confirm the theoretical findings. …

EWE is a consequence of one of the most important labor institutions: the unemployment benefit (UB). We develop a model …

immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining … power. A rise in the share of immigrant workers leads to the creation of additional jobs, but also more job competition. The …, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter …

, active labour market and care policies, social protection measures and tax reforms - and their effectiveness in supporting … the most vulnerable groups in the labour market. Although much of the literature has focused on the quantitative effects … achieving a more inclusive and fair labour market. Our review shows that the empirical literature tends to overemphasise the …

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working … makes people generally better off than being unemployed, but employed welfare recipients do not reach the life satisfaction …. Our findings allow us to draw cautious conclusions on employment subsidies paid as welfare benefits. …

We examine the labour market impacts of the largest livelihoods programs in the world, India's Deendayal Antyodaya …-help groups (SHGs). We combine administrative data on SHG membership across districts in India with survey micro-data on labour … force and employment outcomes of rural women between 2011 and 2019. Using a generalized difference-in-differences approach …