Since the economic crisis in 2008, European youth unemployment rates have been
persistently high at around 20% on average. The majority of European countries spends …

To increase the exit from welfare, benefit recipients in the municipality of Rotterdam were
exposed to various financial incentives. Once their benefit spell exceeded one year, welfare …

This paper studies effects of the introduction of a new digital mass medium on reemployment
of unemployed job seekers. We combine data on broadband internet availability at the local …

Many governments are considering expanding childcare subsidies to increase the labour
force participation of parents (especially mothers) with young children. In this paper, we …

Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll.
Such ex ante effects are hard to identify without model assumptions. We develop a novel …

Public employment service (PES) agencies and caseworkers (CWs) often have substantial
leeway in the design and implementation of active labor market policies for the unemployed …

This article analyzes the effect of a discrete treatment Z on a duration T. The treatment is not
randomly assigned. The confounding issue is treated using a discrete instrumental variable …

We study the role of notifications in the evaluation of training programs for unemployed
workers. Using a unique administrative data set containing the dates when information is …

We present results from a meta-analysis that compiles studies on labour market
programmes targeted at youth below the age of 30 in six selected countries: Denmark …

Matching methods for treatment evaluation based on a conditional independence
assumption do not balance selective unobserved differences between treated and …