This paper uses longitudinal survey data to assess factors affecting the duration of unemployment in Russia. We examine … remarkably similar across the different unemployment definitions and model specifications. Therefore, despite the formidable …

job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells …

Unemployment benefits often reduce incentives to search for a job. Policymakers have responded to this behaviour by … setting minimum job search requirements, by monitoring to check that unemployment benefit recipients are engaged in the … search monitoring and benefit sanctions reduce unemployment duration and increase job entry in the short term. There is some …

(carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job … seekers. The results show that "carrots" and "sticks" treatments prolong unemployment, but carrots increase earnings whereas …

) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations, employment, and postunemployment … intensive carrots and sticks regimes each reduce unemployment durations, but with carrots regimes this raises earnings whereas …

education. The outflow of workers from employment occurs mainly to unemployment, unemployment pensions and disability pensions … general. Unemployment pensioners and disability pensioners also tend to have shorter educational histories than Finnish … security payments. However, at a disaggregated level, disability pensions and unemployment pensions appear as substitutes that …

This paper analyses the ‘risk’ of unemployment of male immigrants to Australia relative to the native born using Wave 1 … effects of variables commonly used previously are quite robust, but several additional correlates of individual unemployment …