The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which … the unemployment rate decreased a lot. A common feature of the successful countries is that they implemented a …

job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells …

appears that the activation program is very effective. The median unemployment duration of the control group is 14 weeks …