former prisoners: the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) and the Transitional Jobs Reentry … Demonstration (TJRD). The analysis assesses the effects of these programs on employment and recidivism. We find that the programs in … both studies led to a large increase in employment driven by the transitional jobs themselves. However, the programs did …

evidence on the impact of ALMPs on employment and unemployment rates. This is followed by a review of the key lessons from …

and measures aimed at vulnerable populations are more effective than other ALMPs in terms of reducing unemployment and … increasing employment. Interestingly, the positive effects of these policies seem to be particularly beneficial for the low …

flexibility, employment security, and income security. It conducts an empirical analysis on the evolution of the selected … convergence on external numerical flexibility and polarization on employment and income security across the EU. It finds that … higher flexibility at the onset of the crisis contributed to a reduction in the unemployment rates after the crisis, while a …

high unemployment, prevalence of skills mismatches, low labor market mobility, and lack of formal employment networks … study first introduces a conceptual framework for ALMPs and describes their overall impact on employment outcomes. The study … through existing public employment agencies. The study also presents the results of some of the few available robust …

rate. Labor market deregulation, proxied by the employment protection legislation index, is detrimental to unemployment in …This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labor market regulations on unemployment using … set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is …

-score matching, we find that a) the employment subsidy had a positive effect for participants on both the probability of finding a … employment. …

in the United States since 1950 and also collects available data on census employment in England and Wales, Canada, Korea …, and Japan. Regressing total employment changes on census hiring yields coefficients extremely close to 1, indicating that … government hiring in the US, Canada, and Korea, I estimate the effect of federal hiring on overall employment. Different samples …

long tradition. Countries share the objective of strengthening employment and reducing benefit dependency and vulnerability …