introducing non-search activity requirements for unemployment benefit recipients. The Mutual Obligations Initiative (MOI) required … people aged 18-34 receiving unemployment benefits to undertake a range of non-search activities (e.g., volunteering, training … a lower incidence of unemployment benefit receipt in comparison to those whose fathers were not. More detailed …

. Dies ist eine wesentliche Ursache für die hohe Arbeitslosigkeit Geringqualifizierter. Dieser Beitrag stellt zwei häufig … sind. Ein alternativer, ursachenorientierter Ansatz ist die Senkung des sozialen Leistungsniveaus durch Workfare. Eine …, preventing employment at low wages. This creates substantial unemployment of the low-skilled. This paper discusses the …

professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into unemployment for the year 1993, the empirical analysis uses local … linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated of SPST … programs starting during 1 to 6, 7 to 12, and 13 to 24 months of unemployment. The empirical results show a negative lock …

on sequential conditional independence assumptions and semiparametric matching estimators, our results suggest that the …

In many European countries, labor markets are characterized by high regional disparities in terms of unemployment rates …

heterogeneity into account. Our results indicate that participation in JCS increases the unemployment duration mainly due to … participants leave unemployment quicker than other groups, which results in highly skilled women benefiting from participation …. However, we find no significant impact on post-unemployment employment stability. Our results are robust to allowing for …