-western immigrants. In combination our findings suggest that the Great Recession did not have a different impact on the unemployment of …This paper examines whether unemployment of non-western immigrant workers in the Netherlands was disproportionally … affected by the Great Recession. We analyze unemployment data covering the period November 2007 to February 2013 finding that …

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 …

In this paper we simultaneously analyze transitions from unemployment to employment and to nonparticipation. We … and unobserved heterogeneity terms. We use a unique population data set of French unemployment over the period 1988- 1994 …

appears that the activation program is very effective. The median unemployment duration of the control group is 14 weeks …

neighborhood unemployment rate. Other neighborhood characteristics such as the average housing price are not important. From this … we conclude that for young Dutch welfare recipients a high local unemployment rate has a negative spillover effect on the …

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits … as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we … evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment stability, on exits from the labor market and on earnings. In our analysis …