This paper examines whether the Action Plan for Promoting Employment and Combating Unemployment, a labor market …

of the unemployment rate and of worker transitions …

of in-work benefits on search intensity, participation, employment, and unemployment, compared to a framework in which …

market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms …

A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor … 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates … causally link our empirical findings to the reduction in long-term unemployment benefits using a heterogeneous-agent labor …

This paper assesses the impact that the 2009 Great Recession had on individual's transitions to and from unemployment … in Ireland. The rate of transition from unemployment to employment declined between 2006 and 2011, while the rate from … employment to unemployment increased. The impact of some of the factors identified as contributing to the likelihood of a …