gravity models for developed countries to include unemployment (chapter 2) and for Latin American and Caribbean developing … countries to additionally include informal employment (chapter 3) as well as the relation between foreign direct investment …, trade, and informal employment as illustrated by the maquiladora industry in Mexico (chapter 4), the interaction between …

policies for the welfare state are analysed: Unemployment accounts, employment subsidies and flexicurity. Finally, a new …

unemployed individuals to exit unemployment by entering self-employment and, thus, by creating their own jobs. In this sense … (ALMP) to fight unemployment in many countries in recent years. In contrast to traditional ALMP instruments like training … employment, start-up incentives are a fundamentally different approach to ALMP, in that they intend to encourage and help …

of the unemployed as well as employment stability once the unemployment spell is finished. In the first research stage …Labour market policy, subjective well-being, reemployment stability, Europe, unemployment benefits, unemployment …-being. However, ALMP cannot fully substitute the psychosocial functions of regular employment. In the second research stage …