minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low … gains of more skill formation outweigh the social welfare losses of increased unemployment. Using a highly conservative …

. Identification is based on the introduction of the Cash-for-Care program in Norway in 1998, which increased mothers’ incentives to …

employees and self-employed workers, unemployment rates and value added per capita account for more than half of the negative …

market and, on rigid labor markets, for unemployment. Exploiting variation in exit-exam systems across German states, we find … market, as well as with lower unemployment. …

age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime …

This paper uses teacher assessments at age 16 in Norwegian comprehensive schools to measure different types of skills …. While we follow the literature and interpret test scores in Mathematics and Science as proxy for cognitive skills, we use a … novel measure for another type of skills: Performance in behavioral and practical subjects. Using individual register data …

interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity …