The integration of active labour market policies within income support schemes - such as unemployment insurance and …

questions on the determinants of firms' labor demand, unemployed individuals' job search behavior and the state's role in …

Canada's Youth Hires program was a targeted employment subsidy that rebated employment insurance premiums to employers … datasets statistically and economically significant employment impacts are observed. Most of the evidence suggests that the 2 …-2.4 weeks of increased employment resulted from an aggregate reduction in those not in the labour force, with at most a modest …

We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI … had minimal effects on employment and earnings; these programs mainly induced the early exit of participants. The fourth … increased employment and earnings. Both early participant exits and effective job counseling underlie these impacts. We conclude …

for economies with either an earnings-related or flatrate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive … feature of the analysis is the comparison of both unemployment compensation systems in a two-country setting. It is … demonstrated that the performance of a system with earnings-related or flat-rate unemployment benefits depends on whether the labor …