We use a quasi-experimental design and national administrative data to analyze the intergenerational effects of introducing non-search activity requirements for unemployment benefit recipients. The Mutual Obligations Initiative (MOI) required people aged 18-34 receiving unemployment benefits to...

20% of UK employees require a licence from government to practice their chosen occupation. This proportion has doubled in the last fifteen years. A further 20% of workers are certified by government agencies, and such certification is often necessary for employment. Occupational regulation is...

We structurally estimate a novel job search model with endogenous job search effort, job quality dispersion, and effort monitoring, taking into account that monitoring effects may be mitigated by on-the-job search and search channel substitution. The data are from a randomized experiment...

We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...

Subject of the Article is the interesting judgment of the Czech Supreme Administrative Court as of 20 May 2010 dealing with the interpretation of international treaties on social security. The judgment is remarkable for the scope of resources of international (or Community) origin of which it...

The authors explore the quantitative effects of introducing temporary employment contracts of various lengths after first calibrating an equilibrium search model with undirected search and an out-of-the-labor-force state to pre-1984 Spain. They find that introducing temporary contracts of three...

The youth unemployment rate in Korea stood at eight percent as of 2021. The expanded youth unemployment rate, however, reached 23 percent in that same year, indicating that at least one in every four or five young persons in Korea was struggling to find suitable work. Although the unemployment...

According to the aims of the labour market reforms of the 90s implemented in many European countries, workers may stay at their first job for a shorter time, but should be ble to switch jobs easily. This would generate a trade-off between job opportunities and job stability. This paper addresses...