High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well …

administrative data from the Austrian unemployment registers which allow us to distinguish between caseworker assignment and actual …

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 …

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 …