The public employment service (PES) makes use in many countries of vacancy referrals as to facilitate the matching … between unemployed workers and vacancies. Based on a “timing-of-events” approach to control for selective participation, this … study evaluates whether this policy instrument enhanced the transition to employment in Flanders (region in northern Belgium …

The current unemployment insurance and employment protection legislation were set up in an economic environment in … supplement to the current unemployment benefits, but also, as to make the worker more accountable, to finance active labour … market policies for the unemployed. Aside of this scheme, it makes sense to generalise the current scheme of temporary …

-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy … increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high … school graduates accumulated 2.8 quarters more private employment. However, because they substitute private for public and …

(replacement) labour income (mostly women) may loose their entitlement after an unemployment duration ranging from two to eight …In Belgium unemployment insurance benefits can only exhaust for one category of workers: partners of workers with … benefit exhaustion on the probability of employment : a standard, a before-after and an IV matching estimator. We conclude …

specific unemployment insurance scheme for young labor market entrants. This scheme entitles youths with no or little labor … market experience to unemployment benefits after a waiting period of one year. As of 2015, the Belgian government … transition to very short-lived jobs. …

specific unemployment insurance scheme for young labor market entrants. This scheme entitles youths with no or little labor … market experience to unemployment benefits after a waiting period of one year. As of 2015, the Belgian government … transition to very short-lived jobs. …

(replacement) labour income (mostly women) may loose their entitlement after an unemployment duration ranging from two to eight …In Belgium unemployment insurance benefits can only exhaust for one category of workers: partners of workers with … benefit exhaustion on the probability of employment : a standard, a before-after and an IV matching estimator. We conclude …