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. …

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. …

Reputation indexes of employment protection have proven popular constructs in studies of the covariation of labor … of employment protection. We critique this reputation in two ways: first, by offering a modicum of 'corrective …' institutional detail on the nature of employment protection in Portugal; and, second, and more substantively, by offering a detailed …

Employment responses to the COVID-19 crisis differed widely across German local labour markets at the beginning of the … months of the pandemic when a strict lockdown was in place. Differences in unemployment rates across local labour markets … lesser extent working-from-home, were essential for the resilience of local labour markets. Using an empirical strategy that …