Do Long-Term Unemployed Workers Benefit from Targeted Wage Subsidies?

Recruiting long-term unemployed: lessons from wage subsidies

Do Targeted Hiring Subsidies and Profiling Techniques for Long-term Unemployed Reduce Unemployment?

To reduce equilibrium unemployment targeted hiring subsidies and profiling techniques for long-term unemployed are often recommended. To analyze the effects of these two instruments, our model combines two search methods: the public employment service and random search, jobseekers choose between an active and a passive search strategy, while labour market policy has two options available. First...

Impacts of hiring subsidies targeted at the long-term unemployed on the low-skilled labor market: The French experience

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper proposes a theoretical matching framework to analyze firms' and workers' response to a targeted hiring subsidy program when taking into account interactions between segments of the low-skilled labor market. By developing a general equilibrium model, the paper provides a useful tool to evaluate the aggregate effects induced on the low-skilled labor market. Then, ...

Do Organizations Benefit from e-Workers

In the digitally connected world of today a whole new set of relations between people has been defined which has not left the business environment untouched. Among the outcomes of this trend with unknown positive potentials and, certainly, weaknesses worthy of deeper studies is the newlydiscussed topic of e-workers. Though, there have been certain issues discussed by researchers in this field; ...

Do the Unemployed Become Successful Entrepreneurs? A Comparison Between the Unemployed, Inactive and Wage-Earners

Do the Unemployed Become Successful Entrepreneurs? A Comparison between the Unemployed, Inactive and Wage-Earners In many countries unemployed people are helped to become self-employed. Selfemployment, however, does not necessarily lead to success. Many leave self-employment after a short period and the economic outcome varies greatly. It is important to learn more about the economic outcome fo...