show that the effects of this specific feature were rather scant. Regarding unemployment duration, only unemployed within a …-2005), namely the reduction in compensation duration for older unemployed above 45 years of age. We look at two potential effects of … this measure: on job take-up rates, but also on post-unemployment outcomes, through various indicators of matching quality …

-being, relatively little is known about how this effect depends on unemployment duration. Data from three large-scale European panels is …Although it is now widely-accepted that unemployment is associated with sharply lower levels of individual well … used to shed light on this issue; these data allow us to distinguish habituation to unemployment from sample selection. The …

This paper analyses unemployment and employment dynamics in the urban Mexican labour market. We use amethod to … distinguish between the effects of duration dependence and unobserved heterogeneity. Cohort effects are added and identified … within the dependent concurrent risks model. We consider the exit from unemployment to the formal and informal sector; the …

This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using … unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal wage employment, and self employment. The parameters of the model … informal, formal and self employed workers. The results suggest that unemployment insurance would have only a modest negative …

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 …

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 …

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

on unemployment duration is found to be asymmetric for men and women. In particular, an elasticity of 0.38 for men and -0 …This paper presents the results of an econometric analysis of the conditional probability of leaving unemployment for … four waves of French married men and women entering unemployment from 1991 to 2002. The effect of spouse's hourly earnings …

on unemployment duration is found to be asymmetric for men and women. In particular, an elasticity of 0.38 for men and -0 …This paper presents the results of an econometric analysis of the conditional probability of leaving unemployment for … four waves of French married men and women entering unemployment from 1991 to 2002. The effect of spouse's hourly earnings …