We analyse the effects active labour market programmes (ALMPs) have on unemployment in a union wage-setting framework … case where ALMPs increase match efficiency of the marginalized workers, and show that ALMPs may increase unemployment. …

associated with high consumption value and low effort. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in the …

unemployment remains unclear. Existing econometric estimates exhibit substantial variation, and it is therefore difficult to draw … observations on the effect of EPL on unemployment from 75 studies. Once we control for publication selection bias, we cannot reject … the hypothesis that the average effect of EPL on unemployment is zero. The meta-regression analysis, which investigates …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …