search requirements for the older unemployed aims to increase their re-employment rates. Abolishing the exemption from job … search requirements for these workers has been shown to initiate higher outflow rates from unemployment for the older …

, typically initially produce negative employment effects. These so-called “lock-in effects” occur because participants spend less … post-participation employment or earnings for the programs to be cost-effective. They represent key indirect costs that are …

In reforming unemployment benefit systems, the policy debate should be on the appropriate level of benefits, the … subsidies needed for people who cannot contribute enough, and how to finance the subsidies, rather than on whether unemployment … insurance or individual unemployment savings accounts are better. Unemployment insurance finances subsidies through implicit …

Turning unemployment into self-employment is a suitable alternative to traditional active labor market policies in many … especially interesting for people whose work is undervalued in paid employment or in situations where job offers are limited …

the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and …Measures of individual happiness, or well-being, can guide labor market policies. Individual unemployment, as well as … unemployment benefits or a basic income can contribute to happiness—though when such policies prolong unintended unemployment, the …

Reducing youth unemployment and generating more and better youth employment opportunities are key policy challenges …

reasons, are unable to work as much as they would like to. Offering unemployment benefits to part-time unemployed workers is …, thus raising the probability of obtaining at least some employment. On the other hand, these benefits weaken incentives for … part-time workers to look for full-time employment. It is also difficult to distinguish people who work part-time by choice …