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

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …

effectiveness matters. Evaluations based on registered unemployment durations are more likely to show favorable short-term impacts …

) 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 …

unemployment as well as across different subgroups of participants. We find that participating in short-term training reduces the … remaining time in unemployment and moderately increases job stability. Long-term training programs initially prolong the … remaining time in unemployment, but once the scheduled program end is reached participants exit to employment at a much faster …

considerably improve effectiveness: up to 20% more (less) time spent in (un)employment within a 30 months window. A shallow policy …

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 …

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …