In Portugal duration of benefits is exclusively age determined while replacement rates are toall intents and purposes … uniform. We exploit differences in potential maximum duration ofbenefits for nearly matched pairs of individuals who differ in … age by one year and in potentialmaximum duration of benefits by three months... …

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemploymentdurations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany... …

´s institutional response to the increase in unemployment and poverty triggered by the crisis. The program provided a social safety net …

log-log duration model. According to both models, theprobability of finding a job falls with the level of disability, the … age at which the individualstarts receiving disability benefits, and the increase in the local unemployment rate …

contemporary unemployment affect a young worker’s probability ofbeing invited to a job interview. In contrast to studies using … forunobserved heterogeneity. We find no evidence that recruiting employers use informationabout past unemployment to sort workers … pastunemployment as a sorting criterion suggests that the scarring effects of unemployment maynot be as severe as has been indicated by …

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well …

The Phillips curve has flattened in Spain over 1995-2006: unemployment has fallen by 15percentage points, with roughly …