intervention was highly effective in reducing unemployment duration, but also spurred employment instability and withdrawals from …

reduction of unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent labour market reform in Germany as … background we find that the role of unemployment benefit reduction for the reduction of unemployment is very modest (7% of the … the observed post-reform unemployment decline. If disincentive effects of PEA reforms had been avoided, the effect could …

ambiguous effect on the employer-employee matching quality and thus on firms' performance. Using a large scale experiment which … monitoring creates compulsion effects which counteract the possible improvement in the matching process expected from job search …

restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment …Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the … Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline of unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved activation of unemployed …

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 …

lose employment faster, especially once eligible for new unemployment benefits. Job seekers assigned to JSA have similar …

This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using … set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is … effect: deregulation of state controls and in particular involvement in business operations tends to push up the unemployment …

. -- Profiling ; active labour market programmes ; ALMP ; statistical treatment rules ; unemployment ; public employment services …