positivepredictions of the model change very little, but the welfare costs of unemployment are muchlarger because unemployment risk is … distributed unequally across workers. As a result,optimal unemployment insurance may be higher and welfare is lower if hiring is …

age at which the individualstarts receiving disability benefits, and the increase in the local unemployment rate …

contemporary unemployment affect a young worker’s probability ofbeing invited to a job interview. In contrast to studies using … forunobserved heterogeneity. We find no evidence that recruiting employers use informationabout past unemployment to sort workers … pastunemployment as a sorting criterion suggests that the scarring effects of unemployment maynot be as severe as has been indicated by …

unemployment, which we calibrateon EU15 and US data. Labor market imperfections are found to significantly increase thevolume of … to investigate how demographicasymmetries may have contributed to unemployment and welfare changes in the recent past …

protection, unemployment insurancebenefits and minimum income support, working time flexibility and wage setting played acrucial … role in determining to what extent the economic crisis led to higher unemployment,wage cuts or income losses and rising …

Italian labor market is considered to be the most highly regulated among OECD countries, the unemployment rate in the North …

´s institutional response to the increase in unemployment and poverty triggered by the crisis. The program provided a social safety net …