-rating component. -- short-time work ; unemployment ; employment … 2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … and employment. There is some evidence that short-time compensation programs stabilize permanent employment and reduce …

(OFP) in Ireland. From 2012 to 2015, the child qualifying age for OFP was reduced from 18 years to 7 years. Lone parents …, there is no such limit for JST recipients, meaning that lone parents on JST had some capacity to increase their hours worked … and thereby increase their income from employment. We find that these reforms led to an average increase in the hours …

historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …

of other employment policies. …

Canada's Youth Hires program was a targeted employment subsidy that rebated employment insurance premiums to employers … datasets statistically and economically significant employment impacts are observed. Most of the evidence suggests that the 2 …-2.4 weeks of increased employment resulted from an aggregate reduction in those not in the labour force, with at most a modest …

This paper revisits the dynamics of unemployment rate for 29 OECD countries over the period of 1980-2013. Numerous … empirical studies of the dynamics of unemployment rate are carried out within a linear framework. However, unemployment rate can … time series exhibits nonlinear behaviour. Our empirical findings provide significant evidence in favour of unemployment …

unemployment is affected by different labour market institutions (LMI) such as labour taxes, unemployment benefits, employment …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 …

systems unless there is an offsetting increase in employment rates. This is especially true for older workers whose employment …