The introduction of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISA) in Chile in October 2002 introduced more … comprehensive unemployment protection while decreasing the opportunity costs of job change. Being the first to empirically … investigate the effect of UISA on employment duration, this paper examines (i) whether the introduction of UISA affected …

This paper investigates the impact of the unemployment insurance (UI) entrance requirement on employment duration in … Sweden. I study employment spells in 1992, 1996, and 1998 to find behavioural adjustments in the timing of job separation … duration of employment spells between 1996 and 1998. …

Self-employment grants and employment subsidies are active labor market programs that aim at helping unemployed workers … to escape unemployment by becoming self-employed or being hired at an initially reduced cost for the employer. > In … Sweden in the 1990's the participation rate in the self-employment program increased from virtually none to almost same as in …

This paper analyses unemployment and employment dynamics in the urban Mexican labour market. We use amethod to … transitions between sectors; and the transitions from the two types of employment to unemployment. The model is estimated on … analysis of transitions from employment to unemployment. The transition risks from formal employment, that is to saymobility …

This paper estimates the relative efficiency of eight Swedish labor market programs in reducing the unemployment …

This paper investigates the impact of the unemployment insurance (UI) entrance requirement on employment duration in … Sweden. I study employment spells in 1992, 1996, and 1998 to find behavioural adjustments in the timing of job separation … duration of employment spells between 1996 and 1998. …