This paper examines if active labor market programs help unemployed job seekers find jobs using a novel random … employment rates by 25% two years after initial job loss. This finding contrasts with the conclusion reached by ordinary least … squares (OLS), which suffers from a negative bias due to selection on unobservables. The employment effects are driven by job …

sorted across firms and worker-firm matches upon re-employment. We find that the Hartz reforms substantially reduced the … 80 percent of the increased wage loss was because displaced workers found re-employment in lower-wage firms after the … reforms. A disproportionate share of these low-wage firms offer temporary employment services to other firms, and we document …

abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …

reducing unemployment leads to industrialised countries offering financial support to unemployed job seekers when searching for … assistance programmes (MAPs) on the job search behaviour of unemployed workers and how this affects their labour market outcomes …The appealing idea of geographically relocating unemployed job seekers from depressed to prosperous regions and hence …

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 …

market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …

impacts on employment and wages. One important mechanism is transitions to nonemployment after disability onset: newly … points after five years relative to that of the control group. For those who stay in employment, working part-time and … switching to less physically or psychosocially demanding jobs are important adjustment paths. The negative labor market effects …

performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

, in speeding up the matching process between unemployed and vacant jobs. The analysis is conceptually rooted in the flow … market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms …