unemployment as well as across different subgroups of participants. We find that participating in short-term training reduces the … remaining time in unemployment and moderately increases job stability. Long-term training programs initially prolong the … remaining time in unemployment, but once the scheduled program end is reached participants exit to employment at a much faster …

All developed economies have unemployment benefit programs to protect workers against major income losses during spells … of unemployment. By enabling unemployed workers to meet basic consumption needs, the programs protect workers from having … recessions. If benefits are too generous, however, the programs can lengthen unemployment and raise the unemployment rate. The …

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …

Measures of individual happiness, or well-being, can guide labor market policies. Individual unemployment, as well as … the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and … unemployment benefits can contribute to happiness - though when such policies prolong unemployment, the net effect on national …

This study focuses on the long term eff ects of unemployment on subjective wellbeing in a family context for 17-24 year … old sons living with at least one parent, using data from the German SOEP. As fathers enter unemployment, sons‘ subjective … sons, this suggests even higher true costs of unemployment than previously thought. -- Life satisfaction ; unemployment …

This text focuses on long-term unemployment in the German labor market caused by insufficient work skills capabilities …

German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data for the years 2000 to 2016, we analyse unemployment durations and unemployment …-term unemployment. Furthermore, the duration of unemployment prior to finding a new job rises with age. This pattern is particularly … between unemployment and an individual’s subsequent wage. This depressing impact is significant only for unqualified workers …

Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational licensing laws are asymmetric …-in-differences event study research design that exploits cross-state variation in licensing laws to compare the unemployment rate between …, we find that licensing shields workers from a recession-induced increase in the unemployment rate of 0.82 p.p. during …