The article focuses on factors that affect individuals' effort to regain their employment. Despite the importance of ….g., difficult, tedious) but nonetheless critical for achieving a valued outcome, such as finding employment. In addition, the study … looked at the ability of employment counselors to evaluate unemployed individuals' probabilities of re-entering paid work …

telephone survey targeted at those leaving the unemployment registers; this enriched data source has a balanced and much higher …

This article aims to establish a link between the unemployment duration and the inter vivos transfers received by the … on the receiver's unemployment duration. Ultimately, a recursion arises and leads to a simulteanous determination of the … transfer and the duration. The model aims to apprehend the job search behaviour in a context where the unemployment …

than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in …

This paper deals with the consequence of public employment on labor market performances in 17 OECD countries over the … period 1960-2000. It is argued that public employment had an important crowding out e¤ect on the private sector and increased … the unemployment rate over this period. More precisely, empirical evidence suggests that the creation of one public job …

This paper analyses unemployment and employment dynamics in the urban Mexican labour market. We use amethod to … transitions between sectors; and the transitions from the two types of employment to unemployment. The model is estimated on … analysis of transitions from employment to unemployment. The transition risks from formal employment, that is to saymobility …

uninterrupted employment, or the distribution of year-to-year earnings changes. Specifically, we show within an otherwise standard …

A common finding of the optimal unemployment insurance literature is that the optimal UI replacement rate is around 50 … unemployment benefits are the only government spending activity. In this paper I show that recommendations for optimal UI levels …