-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high school graduates …

-skilled unemployment. Yet, empirical evidence on their effectiveness is scarce. In this paper, we use Belgian administrative data to … exact matching. Our findings indicate that such subsidies can be effective in reducing unemployment and inactivity, but only …

Canada's Youth Hires program was a targeted employment subsidy that rebated employment insurance premiums to employers … with net increases in insurable earnings for youth aged 18-24. Using a difference-in-differences approach, in each of two … change in the unemployment rate. Many estimated effects are larger for males than females. Notably, strong evidence of …

The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the … workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …