-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition … intervention was highly effective in reducing unemployment duration, but also spurred employment instability and withdrawals from …

Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the … abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its …

In Belgium school-leavers are entitled to unemployment benefits after a waiting period and eligible to intensified …

specific unemployment insurance scheme for young labor market entrants. This scheme entitles youths with no or little labor … market experience to unemployment benefits after a waiting period of one year. As of 2015, the Belgian government …

-shot hiring subsidy for low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job …-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high school graduates …

typical job search monitoring scheme in unemployment insurance (UI) and acknowledges that search effort and requirements are …

sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the … unemployed to front-load search effort prior to monitoring. This causes the job finding rate to increase above the post sanction … job finding rate with minor wage losses. A basic cost-benefit analysis demonstrates that welfare losses for the unemployed …

sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the … unemployed to front-load search effort prior to monitoring. This causes the job finding rate to increase above the post sanction … job finding rate with minor wage losses. A basic cost-benefit analysis demonstrates that welfare losses for the unemployed …

We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence … of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of low educated men, but reduces working …