Long-term unemployment can lead to skill attrition and have detrimental effects on future employment prospects …, particularly following periods of economic crises when employment growth is slow and cannot accommodate high levels of unemployment … costeffective and efficient means of reducing unemployment, during both periods of economic stability and recovery. …

When a government considers a subsidy for an underdeveloped region, it has several options: the subsidies can be for … land, wages, employment, or production. While land subsidy is a lump-sum transfer, the others are meant to promote local … production or worker immigration. Under full employment, replacing the lump-sum subsidy with the other subsidies benefit (harm …

(ALMP) to fight unemployment in many countries in recent years. In contrast to traditional ALMP instruments like training … unemployed individuals to exit unemployment by entering self-employment and, thus, by creating their own jobs. In this sense … combat unemployment but also as business policy to promote entrepreneurship. The corresponding empirical literature on this …