in developing countries have multiple equilibria - the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with …

policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We performthe first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults … in France, exploiting a uniquelongitudinal dataset from the unemployment insurance system... …

Recent theoretical work has examined the spatial distribution of unemployment using theefficiency wage model as the … mechanism by which unemployment arises in the urbaneconomy. This paper extends the standard efficiency wage model in order to …

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 …

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