This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based … on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is … broken down into the risk of entering unemployment and the risk, once unemployed, of not getting reemployed. The paper …

On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to … education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education … level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show that an increase in regional unemployment by 1% decreases the returns …

combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …

the one hand, wages are lowered and unemployment decreases, on the other hand, the individual labour supply decision is … progressivity is below the actual level. A decomposition approach shows that the optimal level is increased by high unemployment and …

This paper deals with a critical assessment and a reestimation of the "non-accelerating in ation rate of unemployment …

determined by the overall unemployment rate. It is argued both on analytical and numerical grounds that the second alternative is …