distributed unequally across workers. As a result,optimal unemployment insurance may be higher and welfare is lower if hiring is …Firms select not only how many, but also which workers to hire. Yet, in standard searchmodels of the labor market, all … workers have the same probability of being hired. We arguethat selective hiring crucially affects welfare analysis. Our model …

happiness, which might explain why at least some workers need to be activated. Inaddition to that, we find that even though …

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

between shorttimework and long-term shortages of skilled workers in sectors and regions that wereparticularly affected by the …

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 …, but some evidence that they use contemporaryunemployment to sort workers. The fact that employers do not seem to use …

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 …