This study proposes a new approach to the analysis of non-employment and its duration in Germany, Italy and Spain using … administrative longitudinal databases. Non-employment includes the discouraged unemployed not entitled to draw unemployment benefits …

This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general … regulations lead to a simultaneous reduction in informality and unemployment. The difference between these two policy options lies …

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

2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … 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 …

Many countries have policies aimed at creating jobs in depressed areas with high unemployment rates. In standard … develop a stylized model of frictional local labor markets with the goal of studying the efficiency of unemployment … housing costs, and lower unemployment rates. Although workers can move freely to arbitrage away differences in expected …

reduction of unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent labour market reform in Germany as … background we find that the role of unemployment benefit reduction for the reduction of unemployment is very modest (7% of the … the observed post-reform unemployment decline. If disincentive effects of PEA reforms had been avoided, the effect could …