also find that the quality of the post-unemployment jobs was not affected by the activation program. Both findings confirm … that activation programs mainly work because they are compulsory and unemployed don't like them. -- Unemployment insurance … ; unemployment duration ; experiment ; activation programs …

policy to allow flexible retirement options for the elderly with an aim to increase labour supply. According to our matching …. Furthermore, the programme seems to reduce the measured unemployment risk. However, the total number of hours worked is …

job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells …

The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which … the unemployment rate decreased a lot. A common feature of the successful countries is that they implemented a …

appears that the activation program is very effective. The median unemployment duration of the control group is 14 weeks …

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

policies in France. Finally we show that the age-dynamics of employment is optimal when the Hosios condition holds and we …