Despite widespread popular concern about what it means to be over 40 and unemployed,
little attention has been paid in the literature to clarifying the role of age within the job …

This paper provides a review of the recent literature on how incentives in unemployment
insurance can be improved. We are particularly concerned with three instruments, ie the …

We develop and evaluate experimentally a novel tool that redesigns the job search process
by providing tailored advice at low cost. We invited jobseekers to our computer facilities for …

Active Labor Market Programs are widely used in European countries, but despite many
econometric evaluation studies analyzing particular programs no conclusive cross-country …

Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, taking as
reference a perfectly competitive market in which losing a job is not a big deal. The …

Most of the recent literature on the effects of labor market institutions on wages and
employment draws on reforms used as natural experiments. This is a significant …

We provide comprehensive evidence on the consequences of automation risk on the career
of unemployed workers and the mitigating role of labor market training. Using almost two …

Since 2009, the UK has witnessed marked increases in the rate of sanctions applied to
unemployment insurance claimants, as part of a wider agenda of austerity and welfare …

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of the effects of benefit sanctions on post‐
unemployment outcomes such as post‐unemployment employment stability and earnings …

Negative perceptions about migrants in Europe are driven by concerns that foreigners
abuse welfare. Paradoxically, instruments of social inclusion are becoming weapons of …