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 …Although activation services such as monitoring, training, or job subsidies have been shown to increase exits from …

We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job … search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of … benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across the board reduction in the replacement rate …

We examine empirically the impacts of labor market policies - in terms of unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor … expected unemployment duration, while improving the quality of the resultant job. Participation in ALMP raises the probability …

This paper analyses the effect of unemployment insurance generosity and active labour market policy on reemployment … to identify policy effects at the micro and macro level. Empirical evidence suggests that unemployment benefit receipt is … associated with longer reemployment duration at the individual level. Furthermore, countries with more generous unemployment …

unemployment to employment using detailed Danish event history data obtained from administrative registers. We find large positive …

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