unemployment insurance claimants a modest cash bonus for rapid reemployment would increase the speed of return to work and reduce …Unemployment insurance is intended to reduce hardship by providing labor force members with partial wage replacement … during periods of involuntary unemployment. However, in performing this income maintenance function, unemployment insurance …

This paper presents estimates of the impact of retraining and public service employment (PSE) on reemployment and …. Controlling for observable characteristics, retraining may have slightly improved the chances for reemployment in a non …-subsidized job, but the gain in reemployment was probably not sufficient to justify the cost of retraining. However, since the …

This paper presents estimates of the impact of retraining and public service employment (PSE) on reemployment and …. Controlling for observable characteristics, retraining may have slightly improved the chances for reemployment in a non …-subsidized job, but the gain in reemployment was probably not sufficient to justify the cost of retraining. However, since the …

While high rates of youth unemployment are a severe problem in most European countries, the program evaluation …

performance, like unemployment or wage rates, show little departure from recent norms over the first few months of the crisis. The …

disposal is consistent with the official LFS youth unemployment rate increased by a reasonable estimate of the number of …

Central and Southern Europe? This is the question addressed in this paper. Youth unemployment has approached or exceeded 20 …

performance, like unemployment or wage rates, show little departure from recent norms over the first few months of the crisis. The …

. Unemployment had reached its lowest levels for thirty years going in to the latest recession and has also remained relatively … subdued through the downturn, certainly compared to previous recessions. A combination of lower inflow rates into unemployment … seen before the recession. -- labour market ; recession ; unemployment ; wages …

been met by in–flows of cross–border workers and, to a lesser extent, immigration. Unemployment has remained low compared …