In theoretical literature, the effects of employment protection on unemployment are ambiguous. Higher employment … workers and firms. Using a conventional matching model in which a monopoly union sets wages, I show that employment protection … can unambiguously increase unemployment. Interestingly, I find that tightening the restrictions on redundancies and …

professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into unemployment for the year 1993, the empirical analysis uses local … linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated of SPST … programs starting during 1 to 6, 7 to 12, and 13 to 24 months of unemployment. The empirical results show a negative lock …

professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into unemployment for the year 1993, the empirical analysis uses local … linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated of SPST … programs starting during 1 to 6, 7 to 12, and 13 to 24 months of unemployment. The empirical results show a negative lock …

potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses unusually informative data originating from administrative unemployment … and social security records. We apply a matching estimator adapted for the case of multiple programmes. We find …

Employment Services (SOC) during the year 2005. The results obtained from the application of matching techniques show that the …

results of propensity score matching indicate that training programs had a non-negative overall effect on the program …

accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital … account (covering education and training), and a health account (covering insurance against sickness and disability). Instead … may be expected to play a substantial role in reducing unemployment, encouraging labour force participation, promoting …