unemployment, there is little comprehensive evidence about the effects of activation during recessions. Here we evaluate a large … activation programme introduced in Portugal in 2012, a time of very high unemployment. This programme required specific … unemployment benefit recipients to meet jobcentre caseworkers and then participate in active labour market policies. Our analysis …

with job search requirements. It shortened unemployment spells through faster job entry, but also through more exits from … the labour force in the 2 years following treatment. The duration of unemployment was reduced for a number of subgroups of … time out of the labour force. The quality of jobs after unemployment, measured by wages, did not change. A cost …

lose employment faster, especially once eligible for new unemployment benefits. Job seekers assigned to JSA have similar …

Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before … recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a similar unemployment rate) 35.6 percent exhausted. This paper documents the … increase in the exhaustion rate, along with the parallel rise in long-term unemployment; examines the consequences; and reviews …