passive welfare state, strong employment protection and collective bargaining that stabilize diversified quality production … of flexible or 'atypical' jobs, whereas increasing flexibility of the standard employment relationship resulted from wage …

structures of both employment and unemployment complements this study …The paper provides an overview of institutional provisions and reforms regarding employment protection, active and …

find that benefit sanctions were effective in bringing unemployed from welfare to work more quickly while reemployment …

hours to 40 hours. We study how this mandatory working hours reduction affected employment and earnings of workers involved …

and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also variedgreatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment … protection, unemployment insurancebenefits and minimum income support, working time flexibility and wage setting played acrucial … role in determining to what extent the economic crisis led to higher unemployment,wage cuts or income losses and rising …

unemployed and the inactive remain distinct groups with regards to transitions into employment, post-industrial labour markets … markets are more likely to make the transition into employment than has previously been the case. It concludes that whilst the … have indeed become more inclusive. Only a few countries saw decreased odds of transition over time for the unemployed …

standard measures of long-term unemployment and alternative measures of long-term non-employment. Next, we take a closer look … most effective for the reintegration of long-term unemployed persons. Subsequently, the special role of Public Employment …In contrast to the recently decreasing unemployment rates in the EU, long-term unemployment remains at alarming levels …

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 … the Great Recession affected unemployment rates of non-western immigrant workers in absolute terms more than unemployment …

In an experimental setting some Danish unemployed workers were assigned to an activation program while others were not …. Unemployed who were assigned to the activation program found a job more quickly. We show that the activation effect increases … with the distance between the place of residence of the unemployed worker and the place where the activation took place. We …