between quantity and quality in these jobs. Provided training is beneficial in counteracting the negative impact of automation … on the job finding rate but we find mixed effects in terms of post-unemployment wages. …

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

, more of the young people were encouraged to take part in training and further education instead of being quickly placed in … significant effect on the overall extent of integration into employment. Regarding post-unemployment job quality, we find no …