The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the … disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more … implement broad-based reform strategies. Our analysis suggests that major unemployment policies are characterised by economic …

effect of entering the programme at different points in time in the unemployment spell. Our main results are derived using …

to escape unemployment by becoming self-employed or being hired at an initially reduced cost for the employer. > In … labor market offices to reduce the selection bias. We find that the risk of re-unemployment is more than twice as high for …

The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the … disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more … implement broad-based reform strategies. Our analysis suggests that major unemployment policies are characterised by economic …

model of equilibrium unemployment. We find that higher firing costsmay even reduce temporary work agency employment if …-term employment arrangements. -- employment protection ; temporary work agencies ; search and matching models ; unemployment …

sector in a model of equilibrium unemployment. We find that higher firing costs may even reduce temporary work agency …

This paper examines whether or not a prolonged unemployment period can raise the quality of job matching after … unemployment. We focus on job tenure as an indicator of a good quality job match after unemployment. We match two sets of Japanese … seekers receiving unemployment insurance, and the other includes information about job seekers applying for jobs.We first show …

the level of BI should be higher, the higher the level of structural unemployment. Structural unemployment is taken here … supply (therefore, as indicated in the title, underemployment is a better term in this respect than unemployment). For … instance, even if the official unemployment rate would be close to zero, there might still be a considerable shortage of jobs …

between high wages and low unemployment risk. A higher marginal tax rate shifts the trade-off in favor of low unemployment … risk, whereas a higher tax burden or unemployment benefit has the opposite effect. Changes in unemployment generate fiscal … and that the provision of unemployment insurance justifies a positive marginal tax rate even without income heterogeneity …

optima, non-linear income taxation is a key complement to unemployment insurance. According to the level of the workers …