the Netherlands between 1969 and 2004. The results show significant short and long-run effects of labour demand as well as …

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 …

2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … and employment. There is some evidence that short-time compensation programs stabilize permanent employment and reduce … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …

Netherlands, which implies that all migrants are (self)-employed at the time of arrival. We find that many migrants leave the … country after a period of no-income. Employment characteristics and the country of origin play an important role in explaining … the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten …

, unemployment benefits, and health insurance), with non-contributory insurance programs and several types of "safety nets." All of … across sectors and geographic regions and higher equilibrium unemployment rates for some groups of workers. This paper …

private and public employment based on two features. First, alongside a perfectly competitive private sector, a cost …

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 …

systems unless there is an offsetting increase in employment rates. This is especially true for older workers whose employment …