This review describes advances over the past decade in what is known about the individual
experience of unemployment, predictors of reemployment, and interventions to speed …

This paper first reviews trends since 1985 in public spending on labour market programmes,
both active and passive. It then reviews the main findings from recent evaluations of labour …

This paper shows that reciprocity has powerful implications for many economic domains. It is
an important determinant in the enforcement of contracts and social norms and enhances …

We investigate the finite-sample performance of causal machine learning estimators for
heterogeneous causal effects at different aggregation levels. We employ an empirical Monte …

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

In the late 1990s, Switzerland introduced an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP)
encompassing several programmes. We evaluate their effects on the individual employment …

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

Recently several studies have analysed active labour market policies by using a recently
proposed matching estimator for multiple programmes. Since there is only very limited …

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 …

In this paper, we estimate the threat effect of active labour market programmes (ALMPs) for a
sample of unemployed men in Denmark. Threat effects of such programmes capture the …