This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labor 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 tend to push up the unemployment …

While unemployment rates in Europe declined after the global financial crisis until 2018/2019, the incidence of long …-term unemployment, the share of people who have been unemployed for >1 year to the total unemployed, remained high. Moreover, the COVID …-19 pandemic could aggravate the long-term unemployment. This paper explores the factors associated with long …

unemployment benefits. We use the 1999 unemployment insurance reform of Portugal, a quasi-natural experiment. The reform increased … the maximum duration of benefits for three groups of agents and maintained all features of the unemployment insurance for … successfully predicts the effects on the unemployment rate, the labor force participation, and the levels of unemployment and …

and measures aimed at vulnerable populations are more effective than other ALMPs in terms of reducing unemployment and …

of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who … can invest in risk-free physical capital and risky human capital. Unemployed households receive unemployment benefits and … employment effects: the equilibrium unemployment rate has been reduced by approximately 1.1 percentage points from 7.5 to 6 …

. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the … gives some tentative support to the view that public training programmes can be used to reduce unemployment. …