This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and … by 10.6 percentage points, whereas closing the gender gaps between men and women would lead to an increase of 2 ….5 percentage points. At the same time, closing both the gender and education gaps would raise the EU employment rate from 76% to 89 …

and restrictions on fixed‐term contracts; (2) unemployment benefit generosity and coverage; and (3) the intensity of … unemployment benefits and access to ALMPs. In particular, we will provide some evidence on potential changes in hirings on …

Job creation has lowered unemployment, but the Belgian labour market still faces many challenges. Employment rates … combination of income support and incentives could be achieved through reforming both unemployment and in-work benefits. Reforming …

unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced … effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit … the PEA could have had an even higher impact on unemployment reduction if there had been less focus on long …

The effect of generous welfare benefits on unemployment is highly contested. The dominant perspective contends that … matches. Despite many studies of welfare benefits and unemployment, the literature has neglected how this relationship might … vary across institutional contexts. This article investigates how unemployment benefits and minimum income benefits affect …