In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment …

using UK data, it finds that unemployment has increased for both natives and migrants as has, consequently, the benefits …

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 benefit recipients to meet jobcentre caseworkers and then participate in active labour market policies. Our analysis …

lose employment faster, especially once eligible for new unemployment benefits. Job seekers assigned to JSA have similar …

unemployment to employment using detailed Danish event history data obtained from administrative registers. We find large positive …

We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people … entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine … effects diminish with the elapsed unemployment duration until a sanction is imposed. The limited use of benefit sanctions can …