This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un)employment and wage effects of social security … financing undertaken by the OECD Jobs Study. Based on a simple macroeconometric model of the labour market, I investigate … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive shortrun employment effect of a revenue …

long-term unemployed individuals. Using linked survey and administrative data for participants and a group of matched non … can be an efficient labor market policy instrument to improve the quality of life of the long-term unemployed. …

We study a large-scale French reform that provided generous downside insurance for unemployed individuals starting a … employment is largely offset by large crowd-out effects. However, because new firms are more productive, the reform has the …

Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this … labor market there will exist hours restrictions for certain jobs and occupations. Therefore, I simulate Germans' working …

subsidy for temporary jobs in the regular labour market that would otherwise not be taken up by the unemployed. We also find … large negative effects for traditional employment programmes operated in sheltered labour markets. For training courses the …In the second part of the 1990's Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a …