work sharing schemes, should be applied in severe recessions for a limited time period of time only. ALMPs creating … market, especially during recoveries. In-work benefits and public works are not very cost-efficient in terms of raising …

labor market and fiscal policies. Simulation results focus on the effects of employment subsidies and in-work benefits and …

Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), we show that the COVID-19 pandemic led to a loss of aggregate real …

Short-time work compensation aims at reducing lay-offs by allowing employers to temporarily reduce hours worked while … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …

While high rates of youth unemployment are a severe problem in most European countries, the program evaluation … components: a) individual coaching, b) classroom training and c) temporary work. Using an ex-post quasi-randomization approach …

Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it … conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits for education-leavers on age or schooling attainment can affect … degree completion and reduce dropout in higher education, but not in high school. We argue that the higher prevalence of …