the credit for large falls in structural unemployment rates that have occurred in some OECD countries. Advances in … information technology which facilitate matching job-seekers to jobs, modern management methods, and a favourable economic climate …

intervention was highly effective in reducing unemployment duration, but also spurred employment instability and withdrawals from …

intervention was highly effective in reducing unemployment duration, but also spurred employment instability and withdrawals from …

unemployment rates that have occurred in some OECD countries. Advances in information technology which facilitate matching job … technology; eligibility conditions for unemployment benefits; job guarantees for the long-term unemployed and other strategies of … intervention in the unemployment spell; and improving the accountability of the Public Employment Service through external audits …

unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced … effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit … the PEA could have had an even higher impact on unemployment reduction if there had been less focus on long …

' incentives to create jobs, increases unemployment, and lowers GDP. To quantify the effects of this novel channel, we extend the … counterfactual exercises. We find that the adverse effects of our mechanism on the economy's TFP, GDP, and unemployment are sizable. …