shaped the impact of unanticipated economic reforms on employment in formal manufacturing firms in India in the 1990s, using …

-level unemployment and trade protection data from India, we find no evidence of any unemployment increasing effect of trade reforms. In …A widely held view among the public is that trade liberalization increases unemployment. Using state and industry … fact, our state-level analysis reveals that urban unemployment declines with trade liberalization in states with flexible …

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 …

In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment …