) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper discusses the mechanisms through which ALMPs affect (un)employment … open unemployment, but also reduced regular employment. The overall policy conclusion is that ALMPs of the scale used in …. There should be a greater emphasis on holding down long-term unemployment in general and a smaller emphasis on youth …

This paper extends a general equilibrium model of unemployment and working hours and evaluates the model on a 5 percent …. Furthermore, working time reductions may result in an increase in wage pressure, causing unemployment to rise. …

force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are … the relevant labor market in-stitutions in the Netherlands and use recent reforms to assess the importance of the … ; labor market reforms ; participation ; unemployment ; disability …

firm affect the worker's unemployment risk? The empirical analyses are based on three matched data sets: (i) survey data … registered unemployment. The main findings are: First, the resources and economic situation of the firm affect the workers' risks … and productive firms. Second, the effect on unemployment risks of the acquisition of skills within the firm is conditioned …

job applicants by employment status affects both the level and the persistence of unemployment and numerically that these ….) could potentially help to explain the high and persistent unemployment in Europe. …

severe and prolonged macroeconomic shock affects wage rigidity and unemployment. Our second survey was conducted in 1998 …, when the unemployment rate was much higher, and the inflation rate much lower, than when we conducted the first survey in … 1991. We find no evidence that the increase in unemployment has softened the mechanisms generating wage rigidity. On the …

This paper investigates the consequences of skill loss as a result of unemployment in an efficiency wage model with …, this will result in a lengthy adjustment process with substantial long run unemployment effects. Moreover, the model is …