, generous unemployment insurance and active labor market programmes. It analyzes in which conditions flexicurity can be optimal …, with firms more likely to survive and thus not exposing much their workers to unemployment risk. Activation programmes … support the reallocation flow from unproductive to productive firms, helping to reduce unemployment. Low employment protection …

exist because of valuable job-matches, unemployment among high-productivity laid-off workers may be optimal from societal … unemployment instead of low-wage jobs, resulting in an inefficient level of unemployment. This paper shows that in such cases, a re …

accept a less demanding traditional job. Unemployment arises from job separation in the declining sector and difficulties in …) a wage subsidy to re-employed workers; (iii) unemployment insurance; (iv) moderate job protection; and (v) active labor …

did not affect total post-unemployment earnings indicating that the positive effects on job finding and job turnover …

, compared to non-participation, ES are effective for workers with little access to informal search channels, and SBA works for …

The paper surveys unemployment policies for advanced market economies and evaluates them by examining the predictions … of the underlying macroeconomic theories. The basic idea is that, for the most part, different unemployment policy …--on the theories` ability to predict some salient stylized facts about unemployment behavior. The paper considers four types …

(carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job … seekers. The results show that "carrots" and "sticks" treatments prolong unemployment, but carrots increase earnings whereas …