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 …

. Simultaneously, the development of services and the integration into global value chains have changed the composition of employment … youth unemployment are persistent and especially affect the lower-skilled. Skill and occupational mismatches of vocational … same time, regional differences in labour market performance have grown. Raising the low employment rate of women with …

This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures … efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies that (a)improve employment and welfare, (b)do not raise earnings inequality …

increase during 2012, though unemployment was stable. The paper also investigates the microeconomic determinants of …

employment in Romania from 1993 to 1995. The data show not only a large drop in aggregate industry employment, but also a decline … other industrial sectors, in agriculture, and in services, as well as unemployment and non-participation in the labor force …

workers are unemployed. Both the reemployment hazard rate and reemployment earnings steadily fall with unemployment duration …

The paper examines the employment and unemployment implications of permitting unemployed people to use part of their … unemployment benefits to provide employment vouchers to the firms that hire them. This opportunity to transfer unemployment … benefits, `benefit transfers', would help replace the unemployment trap by providing an incentive to seek and provide jobs. The …

opportunity to use part of their unemployment benefits to provide employment vouchers to the firms that hire them. The vouchers … would depend positively on unemployment duration and training. The paper argues that this policy would give unemployed … failures generated and amplified by unemployment benefit systems. A simple theoretical model is presented, followed by …