in France, exploiting a unique longitudinal dataset from the unemployment insurance system. Using the so-called timing … policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We perform the first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults … unemployment, but has a significant and positive effect on the duration of the subsequent employment spell. Accounting for training …

payroll taxes, in particular social insurance contributions, are the culprit behind the growing unemployment problem. Using …

per week. We use variations across departements in low-skilled youth unemployment rates and in their interactions with the …

Labour. Transitions from unemployment to permanent vs. temporary jobs are assumed to be generated by a dependent competing …

unemployment and the distribution of both wages and productivity are endogenous. By means of simulations of this model estimated on …