labyrinth of obstacles. While Public Employment Services employ Active Labor Market Policies, their effectiveness for this group … remains uncertain. This study introduces the Employment Readiness Indicator Questionnaire (ERIQ), transcending traditional … employment categories by assessing individuals' progress toward employment and measuring employment readiness for those labeled …

and individual's life and their financial and job situations plus their views on the economic and employment situation of … presence of country and year fixed effects and lagged unemployment. We also use firms' expectations of future employment, which …

effects and lagged unemployment. We also use industrial firm's expectations of future employment, which are also predictive of …

unemployed workers find employment by granting a significant wage-tax exemption (about one third of total labor costs) to firms …

: first, we provide an overview of the aggregate indicators of core labor market institutions such as employment protection … indicators in order to explain diverging patterns of national employment performance. Third, and finally, this paper draws some …

Strategies to 'activate' the unemployed with the help of high-quality employment services have continuously gained … employment services are addressed in three countries which have undertaken considerable reforms in recent years, namely Germany …

Public Employment Service (PES) and generates some additional constraints, but the policy options remain generally similar to …

: first, we provide an overview of the aggregate indicators of core labor market institutions such as employment protection … indicators in order to explain diverging patterns of national employment performance. Third, and finally, this paper draws some …