the economic crisis, the level and structure of unemployment (taking into account the situation of women and young people … as the groups strongly exposed to unemployment), and the level and structure of expenditures within the labor market …, which contributed to an increase in unemployment. There is no discrimination against women in the labor market, but there …

unemployment to disability and no impact on the transition rate to employment or inactivity. More precisely, individuals just below …

U3, the official unemployment rate, is an inadequate gauge of labor-market slack and the extent to which it misinforms … varies substantially over the business cycle. The U6 unemployment rate is usually about 4 percentage points above U3. However …

(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 …

certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the … certain time in unemployment will leave unemployment before training while others will be trained later. We are interested in …

Many countries suffer from persistently high unemployment rates. The scope for labour market reforms is often limited …

) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper discusses the mechanisms through which ALMPs affect (un)employment … open unemployment, but also reduced regular employment. The overall policy conclusion is that ALMPs of the scale used in …. There should be a greater emphasis on holding down long-term unemployment in general and a smaller emphasis on youth …