Using a unique micro panel data set we investigate whether active labor market programs improve employment prospects …

Using a unique micro panel data set we investigate whether active labor market programs improve employment prospects …

) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations, employment, and postunemployment …Public Employment Service (PES) agencies and caseworkers (CW) often have substantial leeway in the design and … implementation of active labor market policies (ALMP) for the unemployed, resulting in variation in the intensity of usage per policy …

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …

This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which … unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain …-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are viewed as the outcome of the interplay between labor market shocks and prolonged …

depicted and its effects on formal and informal labour markets. The most important challenges for employment policy as well as …The paper aims at comparing the formal and informal labour markets in the Central and Eastern European new EU Member … States and candidate countries of the European Union. First, the current situation of the labour market is described …

shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison … target group for extraordinary labour market policies. Using register data from Statistics Sweden (labour market status … sample other workers who lost their jobs because of plant closures in 1987-88 but who did not receive extraordinary measures …

employment and investment, although output per worker is largely unaffected. We find strong evidence that hysteresis transmits … through a rise in long-term unemployment and a decline in labor force participation and disproportionately affects the least …