This paper is the first to use program administrative data from Brazil's National Employment System (SINE) to assess … evaluate the impact of SINE on employment probability, wage rates, time until reemployment, and job tenure. Difference …

This paper is the first to use program administrative data from Brazil's National Employment System (SINE) to assess … evaluate the impact of SINE on employment probability, wage rates, time until reemployment, and job tenure. Difference …

We present a quarterly narrative database of important labour market reforms in selected euro area economies in between … 1995 and 2018 covering 60 events. We provide legal adoption and implementation dates of major reforms to employment … protection legislation and unemployment benefits. Estimates based on local projections find negative short-run effects of …

Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in …, including labor market segmentation. This particularly concerns reforms in: (1) employment protection, i.e. dismissal protection … and restrictions on fixed‐term contracts; (2) unemployment benefit generosity and coverage; and (3) the intensity of …

This paper studies the effect of two labor market institutions, unemployment insurance (UI) and job search assistance … search unemployment, skill depreciation during unemployment, and idiosyncratic as well as aggregate labor market risk. The …

This paper studies the effect of two labor market institutions, unemployment insurance (UI) and job search assistance … search unemployment, skill depreciation during unemployment, and idiosyncratic as well as aggregate labor market risk. The …

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working … makes people generally better off than being unemployed, but employed welfare recipients do not reach the life satisfaction …. Our findings allow us to draw cautious conclusions on employment subsidies paid as welfare benefits. …

. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a … be seen how future governments react to worsened economic conditions in light of these experiences. -- Unemployment …