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. …

Do investment programs create more jobs in tight or in slack labor markets? We study this question using data from a … large, long-term photovoltaic invest scheme in Germany. Comparing counties with high and low unemployment both over time and … across space, we find that photovoltaic installations created at least twice as many jobs in slack than in tight labor …

taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European … decentralization of bargaining increased labor market flexibility and contributed to the reduction of unemployment. Our analysis … suggests that the reform on job security had no significant effect on the aggregate rate of unemployment …

Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment …

This paper summarizes the main lessons learned from Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, a … microdata data. The evidence shows that regulation reduces labor market flexibility, reduces the employment of marginal workers …

reducing the generosity of unemployment benefits decreases wages, fosters employment and augments competitiveness as well as … build a two-region RBC model with labor market frictions, idiosyncratic consumption risk, and limited cross …

Unemployment insurance taxes are experience-rated to penalize firms that dismiss workers. We examine whether experience …, nearly a million jobs in the Great Recession …