unemployment and active labor market programs (ALMPs), utilizing a reform that decreased dismissal costs for small firms only … unemployment and some ALMPs. Our results suggest that there was less screening of new hires after the reform, and that … liberalization of EPL mitigates the stigma associated with unemployment and participation in ALMPs. …

Training programs for the unemployed typically involve teaching a specific skill to ease the transition into employment …. However, in 1997, the Swedish unemployed could choose general/theoretical training through enrollment in one year of full … general vs. specific training 13 years post-enrollment. In the long term, general training may compensate for the short …

through training, as active measure, is of major importance considering the increased speed of changes in the labour market. …

Although activation services such as monitoring, training, or job subsidies have been shown to increase exits from … unemployment, there is little comprehensive evidence about the effects of activation during recessions. Here we evaluate a large … activation programme introduced in Portugal in 2012, a time of very high unemployment. This programme required specific …