the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and …Measures of individual happiness, or well-being, can guide labor market policies. Individual unemployment, as well as … unemployment benefits can contribute to happiness - though when such policies prolong unemployment, the net effect on national …

employment levels during recessions. However, they can create inefficiency in the labor market, and might limit labor market …

Following a decline in employment and participation rates during the 1980s and 1990s, Israel managed to reverse these … trends during the last 15 years. This was accompanied by a substantial decrease in unemployment. New labor force participants …

workers. Since youth unemployment is a pressing problem throughout advanced and developing countries, it is important to … consider the impact of these policies on the employment prospects of the young. …

unemployment benefits. Will social welfare rise as a result? Will some groups be winners and other groups be losers? Will the …

2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … and employment. There is some evidence that short-time compensation programs stabilize permanent employment and reduce … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …

This paper analyses the effect of unemployment insurance generosity and active labour market policy on reemployment … to identify policy effects at the micro and macro level. Empirical evidence suggests that unemployment benefit receipt is … associated with longer reemployment duration at the individual level. Furthermore, countries with more generous unemployment …

workers. Since youth unemployment is a pressing problem throughout advanced and developing countries, it is important to … consider the impact of these policies on the employment prospects of the young. …

women), the resilience of employment during recessions, and the dramatic emergence of very-short-term employment contracts …