restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment …Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the … Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline of unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved activation of unemployed …

This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using … set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is … effect: deregulation of state controls and in particular involvement in business operations tends to push up the unemployment …

This paper revisits the dynamics of unemployment rate for 29 OECD countries over the period of 1980-2013. Numerous … empirical studies of the dynamics of unemployment rate are carried out within a linear framework. However, unemployment rate can … time series exhibits nonlinear behaviour. Our empirical findings provide significant evidence in favour of unemployment …

appears that the activation program is very effective. The median unemployment duration of the control group is 14 weeks …

-based matching and weighting estimators frequently applied to evaluate the average treatment effect on the treated. We analyse both … ones in terms of size and power for both matching and weighting estimators. Furthermore, the results are qualitatively …

lose employment faster, especially once eligible for new unemployment benefits. Job seekers assigned to JSA have similar …