uses a unique dataset, which tracks the labour market position of a cohort of unemployment benefit claimants for almost two … years, to evaluate the impact of a range of government‐sponsored training courses in Ireland. Overall, we found that those … results suggest that, in the Irish context, there are potentially substantial benefits to re‐orientating unemployment training …

unemployment support schemes in Germany. Against this background the main part of this thesis contributes to the evaluation of …

During the Great Recession, U.S. unemployment benefits were extended by up to 73 weeks. Theory predicts that extensions … increase unemployment by discouraging job search, a partial equilibrium effect. Using data from the large job board … implies that the general equilibrium effect reduces the impact of unemployment insurance on unemployment by 40%: increasing …