Swiss policy makers created a unique link between unemployment benefits and Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) by … Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we … making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of …

Eastern Europe has played an important role in this development. The derived labor market consequences are not fully clear so … market might be somewhat negatively affected by the East enlargement of the EU, the German labor market will not. …