to make minimum effort on the placement of some of them. -- unemployment ; job-search assistance ; labor market …

since the 2001 French unemployment policy reform (PARE). Several of the schemes are dedicated at improving the quality of … assignment of workers to jobs. As a result, it is necessary to assess their impact on unemployment recurrence as well as … unemployment duration. Using duration models and a very rich data set, we can identify heterogenous and time-dependent causal …

since the 2001 French unemployment policy reform (PARE). Several of the schemes are dedicated at improving the quality of … assignment of workers to jobs. As a result, it is necessary to assess their impact on unemployment recurrence as well as … unemployment duration. Using duration models and a very rich data set, we can identify heterogeneous and time-dependent causal …

, leading in turn to higher, not lower, unemployment, And, even if unemployment comes down, workers may actually be worse off …, going through many spells of unemployment and fixed duration jobs, before obtaining a regular job. Looking at French data … substantial reduction in unemployment duration. If anything, their effect on the welfare of young workers appears to have been …

broad-based income tax, have six times as large an effect on unemployment as untargeted reductions, while employee social …