evidence on the impact of ALMPs on employment and unemployment rates. This is followed by a review of the key lessons from …

Turning unemployment into self-employment is a suitable alternative to traditional active labor market policies in many …

-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy … increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …

labor demand. Tightening eligibility to short-time work benefits tends to reduce the wage while the impact on unemployment …

-policy allow us to study effects of both subsidy rate and subsidy duration. We find that doubling of the subsidy rate has a … substantial impact on job finding rates but that doubled subsidy duration has no such effect. We find the opposite pattern when we … positive employment effect of doubling the subsidy duration persists after the expiry of the employment subsidies. …

abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its … effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a triple difference methodology the hiring subsidy is shown to increase the job … at least a bachelor's degree. However, the hiring subsidy mainly created temporary short-lived employment: eligible …