We use administrative data to examine the effect of a 50% benefit cut for young unemployed workers in Ireland during … the Great Recession. Because the cut applied only to new benefit claims, claimants whose unemployment start dates differed …-in-Difference analyses. While we find no impact on unemployment duration for those aged 20–21, the benefit cut significantly reduced duration …

Countercyclical unemployment benefit extensions in the United States act as a propagation mechanism, contributing to … both the high persistence of unemployment and its weak correlation with productivity. We show this by modifying an … otherwise standard frictional model of the labor market to incorporate a stochastic and state-dependent process for unemployment …

This paper evaluates the effect of a voucher award system for assignment into vocational training on the employment … outcomes of unemployed voucher recipients in Germany, along with the causal mechanisms through which it operates. It assesses … negative short term and positive long term employment effects of voucher award are mainly driven by actual training …

This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program … the form of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) - so as to mitigate the moral hazard problem of traditional … unemployment insurance programs. Our study is the first one to empirically investigate whether UISAs improve work incentives. We …

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and - through input-output linkages and other general …

for 1990-2004 to examine how changes in the minimum wage affect teen employment. Spatial econometrics techniques account … for the fact that employment is correlated across states. Such correlation may exist if a change in the minimum wage in a … state affects employment not only in its own state but also in other, neighboring states. The authors show that state …

market institutions and their interaction: employment protection legislation andactive labour market policy. The paper … examines recent policy reforms in Italy focusing on the impact of the 2012 Fornero reforms of employment protection legislation …

Canada's Youth Hires program was a targeted employment subsidy that rebated employment insurance premiums to employers … datasets statistically and economically significant employment impacts are observed. Most of the evidence suggests that the 2 …-2.4 weeks of increased employment resulted from an aggregate reduction in those not in the labour force, with at most a modest …

employment and education. Using a regression discontinuity design in tandem with a difference-in-discontinuities analysis, we … find that increasing the minimum wage substantially reduces the employment of young males. In terms of magnitudes, the … employment probability declines by 2.5-3.1 percentage points at the 16-year-old age cut-off. Moreover, the probability of …