This thesis is composed of three different chapters focusing on labour market policies, unemployment and the …-in-difference study. The second chapter is dedicated to the effects of the partial revision of the unemployment insurance law, examining … in a synthetic control method the effects of a shorter insurance benefit period on unemployment. The last part focuses on …

significant employment impacts are discovered and no significant unemployment impacts are found …

Unemployment in Europe? Concepts and Measurement in the European Community Household Panel -- Workers and Labour Market Outcomes of … and Demographic Employment Patterns -- Equilibrium Unemployment and the Duration of Unemployment Benefits -- Social …

"The labor markets of important OECD countries show a similar picture: high wages and low unemployment for skilled … workers and low wages but high unemployment for low-skilled workers. During the last 10 years this fact has been studied under …

Unemployment has remained high in the Philippines, at almost twice the level of neighboring countries, despite … relatively fast employment growth in the past decade. Employment growth was not sufficient to reduce unemployment because of … unemployment declines were positively correlated with real GDP growth and, to a lesser extent, negatively with the real minimum …