-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy …

than the STU. The effects of the hiring subsidy and of profiling techniques to increase the effectiveness of the PES depend … with their productivity, not only the hiring subsidy but also the job placement activities of the PES are counterproductive …

-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. …