Struggling with increasing unemployment rates, many European countries intensified the role of active labour market policies (ALMP) in the 1990s. Active labour market programmes include training programmes such as job search and personality courses, computer courses, language courses and further vocational training.They also contain temporary wage and employment subsidies for competitive and fo...

This report examme and evaluates recent steps taken m France to ehmmate temporally the employers’ socml security payroll tax and to mtroduce Governmentsubsldlzed employment trammg programs tn an effort to open up Jobs for the unemployed Much attention has been gwen I” the Umted States and abroad to the problem of the sharp growth m the level of unemployment, parttcularly among those under age 2...

This paper proposes modifications to the popular model of equilibrium unemployment by Mortensen and Pissarides [30]. I augment the model by introducing (1) costly planning for brand-new jobs, (2) the option to mothball preexisting jobs, and (3) a non-trivial job rejection decision for new employment relationships. These modifications greatly improve the model’s ability to replicate the Beveridg...

Technological change drives long-term economic growth, productivity and improvement in living standards. At the same time, the emergence and diffusion of new ideas, products and production techniques throughout the economy entails a process of " creative destruction ". New technologies destroy jobs in some industries, especially among the low-skilled, while creating jobs which are often in diff...

The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany: A Microeconometric Evaluation In this paper we evaluate the employment effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Job creation schemes are a major element of active labour market policy in Germany and are targeted at long-term unemployed and other hard-to-place individuals. Access to very informative ad...

This article is a summary of the main findings of the study "Riding towards the green economy: cycling and green jobs", which was developed in the context of the Transport, Health and Environment pan-European Programme (THE PEP). It builds on previous work under THE PEP, which demonstrated the job creation potential of cycling and of green and healthy transport more generally. The report summar...

T he United States has long been viewed as having among the world’s most entrepreneurial, dynamic, and flexible economies. It is often argued that this dynamism and flexibility has enabled the US economy to adapt to changing economic circumstances and recover from recessions in a robust manner. While the evidence provides broad support for this view, the outcomes of entrepreneurship are more he...

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