to a subsidized employment program were randomly selected to attend job interviews. Employers hiring a new employee from … administrative employment data, we find that attending the job interview led to an increase of 15 percentage points in the likelihood …

from the employment registry of a transition economy (Poland), encompassing nine years of monthly data (from 2000 to 2008 …

We analyze the optimal regional pattern of public employment in an information-constrained second-best redistribution … policy showing that regionally differentiated public employment can serve as an expenditure side tagging device, bypassing or … relaxing the equity-efficiency trade-off. The optimal pattern exhibits higher levels of public employment in low productivity …

data between 1980 and 2010. We report evidence of significant spatial variations in education employment shares and in the … of labour market polarization, as they have resulted in faster employment growth in high skill occupations, but also in a …

economies. The relationship between demographic ageing and employment outcomes is even more worrying once the relationship is …

reacts to regional employment shocks in a variety of cases. Shock responses are channelled via changes in unemployment …