that was implemented in 2006 in Belgium could have played a role not only in the transition to employment and inactivity … unemployment to disability and no impact on the transition rate to employment or inactivity. More precisely, individuals just below …

impact of employment protection laws (EPL) on job content. Economic theories predict that stricter protection increases … became larger when I did not control for industry, occupation, government employment, and human capital variables including …

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and - through input-output linkages and other general …

ALMPs that provide: (i) incentives for retaining employment, (ii) incentives for creating employment, (iii) incentives for …, when and to what extent specific ALMPs are effective. In particular, the paper shows that ALMPs retaining employment, like … employment, like hiring subsidies, perform much better on cost-effectiveness and strengthen the outsiders' position in the labor …

This paper fills a gap in the literature by investigating whether temporary agency employment substitutes regular … employment. To take into account the interaction between the two employment forms, we identify a SVAR model with correlated … innovations by volatility regimes. We show that a positive shock to temporary agency employment increases overall employment, but …

compare WIA participants who do and do not receive training. In addition to the usual impacts on earnings and employment, we … to estimate impacts on the characteristics of the firms at which participants find employment. We find moderate positive … impacts on employment, earnings and desirable firm characteristics for adults, but not for dislocated workers. Our primary …