Persistent unemployment across OECD countries has led to increasing investments in activation programmes and, as a …

Recent evidence from large-scale field experiments has shown that employers use job candidates' unemployment duration … unemployment durations. In addition, these participants rate the job candidates on statements central to four theoretical … mechanisms often related to the scarring effect of unemployment: general signalling theory, (perceived) skill loss, queuing …

addition to unemployment benefits when they are dismissed. Therefore, we conduct a state-of-the-art scenario experiment in … - from partaking in this regime because it seemingly mitigates the regular stigmatisation of long-term unemployment …