minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low … gains of more skill formation outweigh the social welfare losses of increased unemployment. Using a highly conservative …

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work and labour market … participation amongst prime-aged Germans. We show that unemployment fell because the Hartz reforms induced a large fraction of the … female non-participants accepted low-paid, part-time jobs. Counterfactual simulations using estimated transition …

implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 8th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …

Many countries suffer from persistently high unemployment rates. The scope for labour market reforms is often limited …

unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced … effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit … the PEA could have had an even higher impact on unemployment reduction if there had been less focus on long …

We study empirically how various labor market institutions - (i) union density, (ii) unemployment benefit remuneration …

) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper surveys the empirical studies of the effects of ALMPs in … Sweden. On the whole, ALMPs have probably reduced open unemployment, but also reduced regular employment. The overall policy …

to the additionality degree, the impact of the rate of long-term unemployment is positive. -- additionality ; cohesion …