temporary employment succeed in promoting flows into permanent employment. The 1994 reform severely restricted temporary … contracts and the 1997 reform introduced a new permanent contract figure with lower payroll taxes and dismissal costs than the … reducing the share of temporary employment because they had no impact on contract conversions, which account for most new …

receiving unemployment benefits. This paper evaluates the targeting performance and welfare impacts of the program. The paper …

economic growth in the future. -- unemployment ; labor force participation ; labor supply ; benefit systems ; public policy …

While there is a fairly broad consensus regarding the potential adverse effects of generous unemployment benefit … insurance on steady-state employment, the short-term effects of benefit reforms are not well-established. This paper contributes … to fill this gap by estimating impulse responses to benefit reform "shocks" identified for a panel of OECD countries …

and helps to preserve jobs in the context of a recession by making employment and unemployment less elastic with respect …, the net effect of STW on employment was negligible or may even have become negative. However, the gross impact of STW on …

unemployment insurance: a large informal sector, weak administrative capacity, and large political risk. It argues that these … countries should tailor an OECD-style unemployment insurance program to their circumstances, among others by relying on self …-insurance (via unemployment insurance savings accounts), complemented by solidarity funding, as a key source of financing; by …

, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary employees, makes real reform much harder … equilibrium has not allowed them to be transformational enough. -- temporary contracts ; dualism ; labor market reform ; political …

unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings. We also analyze whether displaced workers are more likely to be in informal … employment relationships or self-employed or less happy than their non-displaced counterparts. We also look at health and psychic … costs as additional outcomes. Displaced migrant workers do not encounter losses in terms of longer unemployment spells or …

for the design of selected labor market policies including unemployment compensation, employment services and job search … assistance, and job training. -- behavioral economics ; unemployment insurance ; job training ; job search …

We estimate the effect of active labour-market programmes on the exit rate to regular employment for non … largest for subsidized employment programmes, but effects are also large and significant for direct employment programmes and … other programmes. Effects are larger if programmes begin after six months of unemployment. Implications of our estimates are …