of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who … can invest in risk-free physical capital and risky human capital. Unemployed households receive unemployment benefits and … employment effects: the equilibrium unemployment rate has been reduced by approximately 1.1 percentage points from 7.5 to 6 …

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 …

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 …, parenting activities and school characteristics. -- Unemployment duration ; social skills ; noncognitive skills ; cognitive …

das Resultat der klassischen Arbeitsmarkttheorie, dass gewerkschaftliche Lohnbeeiflussung zu höherer Arbeitslosigkeit … theoretischen Zusammenhang zwischen gewerkschaftlicher Verhandlungsmacht und Arbeitslosigkeit. …

unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross …

the unemployment spell. This is confirmed by complementary analysis with individual survey data suggesting that online job … search leads to additional formal job interviews after a few months in unemployment. …

us to assess the effect of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and, in a new departure, the impact of …

We analyze different alternatives how a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA) could be designed …-term unemployment and find that it would have absorbed a significant fraction of the unemployment shock in the recent crisis. However, 5 …

From 2002–2004, the German government passed several laws that curtailed the generosity of the unemployment … compensation system. One of the most ambitious changes was a considerable reduction in unemployment benefit entitlement lengths for … highly disputed reform induced a considerable decline in unemployment incidence among older workers. It thus sealed an …

We ask whether sectoral shocks and the subsequent labor reallocation are responsible for unemployment within selected … is linked to unemployment in country specific dynamic models. For Spain, the ADL-model estimation reveals a significant … impact of sectoral reallocation on unemployment that goes beyond usual business cycle patterns. In Italy, there is weaker yet …