unemployment, there is little comprehensive evidence about the effects of activation during recessions. Here we evaluate a large … activation programme introduced in Portugal in 2012, a time of very high unemployment. This programme required specific … unemployment benefit recipients to meet jobcentre caseworkers and then participate in active labour market policies. Our analysis …

With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for … Germany. We estimate separate models for people living alone and people living with their family, as sanctioned welfare …

labour market prospects of needy job-seekers without access to insurance-paid 'unemployment benefit I'. The results show that … placement difficulties benefit comparatively more from subsidisation. -- Wage subsidies ; unemployment benefits II for needy job …

Short-term training has recently become the largest active labor market program in Germany regarding the number of … paper estimates the effects of short-term training programs in West Germany starting in the time period 1980 to 1992 and …

In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment …

We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people … entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine … positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The …

payments. Additional survey evidence shows that speeddate participation increases job search motivation and reduces reservation …

rate of job destruction is sufficiently low, the unemployment rates can get close to steady-state values during the … transition. Within the realm of feasible scenarios, unemployment differentials are simultaneously determined by the speed of … destruction is fast and benefits are high. -- transition ; heterogeneous labor ; job creation ; unemployment benefit ; wage …