I extend the model-based literature on spillover effects of labour market reforms on foreign (un-)employment by …

markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Pro-grammes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. Using a meta … combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour …

, we find no significant impact on post-unemployment employment stability. Our results are robust to allowing for random … heterogeneity into account. Our results indicate that participation in JCSs increases the unemployment duration mainly due to … leave unemployment quicker than other groups, which results in highly skilled women benefiting from participation. However …

high effect of employment protection for regular jobs on youth unemployment. In addition, the combined effects of powerful …This paper analyzes the role of labor market institutions for youth unemployment, as contrasted to total unemployment … establishes significant labor supply effects and effects of the education system on youth and total unemployment. …

presented. The effects on the employment probabilities of the unemployed are small and negative so far. A theoretical analysis … placement services for the unemployed to private agencies. Whereas in the Netherlands and Australia the whole system of … employment services was reorganized at once, making an econometric evaluation difficult, only a small part of services has been …

private competitors. We exploit very rich administrative data provided for the first time by the Federal Employment Agency and … vouchers. We find positive treatment effects on the employment probability after one year of 6.5 percentage points in Western …

frictions. Our results suggest that the disproportional growth of GDP (labour productivity) in comparison to consumption (wages …While a widespread consensus exists among macroeconomists that the German labour market reforms in 2003-2005 have … successfully contributed to the decline of the unemployment rate, critics claim that the reforms led to wage restraint and …

This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un-)employment and wage effects of social security … financing undertaken by the OECD Jobs Study. Based on a simple macroeconometric model of the labour market, I investigate … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive short-run employment effect of a revenue …