' permanent contract" (EPC) in the 2012 labour market reform may have involved substantial deadweight effects. In fact, the …

In many countries, reducing unemployment is among the most important policy goals. In this context, monitoring job …

Mit der vor fünf Jahren in Kraft getretenen Hartz- IV-Reform waren große Erwartungen verbunden. Tatsächlich ist im …. Das ist für sich genommen aber nur ein schwaches Indiz für den Erfolg der Reform: Zum einen nahm die gesamte … Arbeitslosen war sowohl vor als auch nach der Reform dazu bereit. Und die Hartz-IV-Erwerbslosen sind insgesamt genauso …

Unemployment in Europe is excessively high on average, and is divergent across countries and population groups within … policies is needed to fight unemployment more effectively. …

Unemployment benefits often reduce incentives to search for a job. Policymakers have responded to this behaviour by … setting minimum job search requirements, by monitoring to check that unemployment benefit recipients are engaged in the … search monitoring and benefit sanctions reduce unemployment duration and increase job entry in the short term. There is some …

Unemployment benefits reduce incentives to search for a job. Policymakers have responded to this behavior by setting … minimum job search requirements, by monitoring to check that unemployment benefit recipients are engaged in the appropriate … monitoring and benefit sanctions reduce unemployment duration and increase job entry in the short term. However, there is some …

Unemployment increased drastically over the course of the Great Recession from 4.5 percent prior to the recession to 10 … percent at its peak in October 2009. Since then, the unemployment rate has come down steadily, and it stood at 5.8 percent in … November 2014. Based on existing analyses and some new evidence, this paper establishes that much of the change in unemployment …

, has a number of different goals. On the one hand, One-Euro-Jobs are intended to increase the participants' employment … short-term employment probability. …