This paper studies how cognitive and social skills in childhood are related to the duration of unemployment in … from unemployment to employment during an individual's first unemployment spell. The analysis is based on British cohort …

employment and unemployment. The empirical analysis is based on propensity score matching methods, obtaining the effects of FTCs … by comparing the future situation of (?treated?) unemployed entering into FTCs after a particular unemployment duration … persons entering into FTCs after a certain number of month of unemployment are reasonable. A first counterfactual is never to …

Economic theory suggests that an extension of the maximum length of entitlement for unemployment benefits increases the … duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s … unemployment is not directly observed. For this reason we bound the reform effect on unemployment duration over different …

We present evidence for a highly significant interaction between state dependence in individual unemployment risk and … high unemployment and larger in times of low unemployment. This is consistent with the existence of stigma effects in the … sense that unemployed individuals face difficulties finding a new job because employers interpret unemployment as a negative …

We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994 …. The effects on the duration of unemployment of important socio-economic and demographic characteristics are explored … besides the impacts of the unemployment benefit system and training schemes. Finally, we investigate whether prior …

In Finland the elderly unemployed are allowed to collect unemployment benefits up to the age of 60, when they can … retire via a particular unemployment pension. In 1997 the eligibility age of persons benefiting from this scheme was raised … from 53 to 55. We consider changes in the risk of unemployment, unemployment durations, and the exit states before and …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

. As an application we estimate nonparametric conditional quantile functions with German administrative unemployment …

This paper analyzes changes in the risk of unemployment and changes in the distribution of unemployment duration for … employment subsample 1975- 1997 is used for the analysis. It contains employment and unemployment trajectories of about 500 … length of unemployment duration. A large share of long term unemployment with only few exits to employment is observed in …