. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a …

force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are …

depicted and its effects on formal and informal labour markets. The most important challenges for employment policy as well as …

objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …

differences across countries. In the major European countries, unemployment has increased dramatically over the past two decades …

shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …

This paper studies effects of unemployment and labour market programmes on real wages in the Czech and Slovak Republics … unemployment elasticity of pay is, however, higher in the Slovak Republic, than in the Czech Republic. The wage subsidy and the …

employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs …, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance, and employment subsidies. The results are remarkably uniform across studies. We …

on as a major means of raising employment and participation in the long run. …

. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment rates, but a high proportion of non-workers say that they are not working …