unemployment and labour market exclusion. The main findings of the study are that low levels of education and working experience … unemployment and nonparticipation. There is also evidence of budget constraints that eventually lead to decreasing reservation … wages or increasing search intensity, as unemployment spells become very long. We discuss some policy implications of our …

Discouragement is a process occurring during an unemployment spell. As the spell prolongs, an individual gradually … analyse theoretically the impact of changes in unemployment insurance and social assistance benefits, and we conduct some …

the indirect wage effect resulting from lower unemployment risks and shorter spells in unemployment associated with higher … accounting for the effects of unemployment on individual wages using EU-SILC data. Across countries we find a high variation of … the effect of education on unemployment duration. Overall, the returns to education are estimated to be the highest in the …

In this paper we investigate whether unemployment traps exist and are significant in the transition from unemployment … periods of unemployment in the past is particularly important: long-term unemployed people have difficulties in re …-integrating the labour market and they obtain low salaries when they succeed in finding employment. Long unemployment spells are …

unemployment into either new job or recall. The recall probability is allowed to affect the search intensity for new jobs. …