Degressivity of unemployment benefits is a major feature of social protection in most industrialised countries: the … the unemployment spell. Moreover degressivity of unemployment benefits has significant distributive effects as the risk of … long-term unemployment varies from one individual to another. This paper proposes a formal model of political support for …

(long-term) unemployment and follow an ‘adaptive' approach: improving the ‘employability' of the unemployed, which is seen … approach to back-to-work initiatives, so that society's share of responsibilities for long-term unemployment and social …

spatial repartition of immigrants in Belgium is determined by both network eff ects and local characteristics. The …

This paper explores the spatial variation of land prices in Belgium. The originality of the methodology is threefold …

-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …

neighborhood characteristics explain victimization better than individual characteristics. Second, I find that local unemployment … the precise localization of the data to adopt a spatial approach, comparing the effect of unemployment rate in the …

determine unemployment. We show that the impact of financial variables depends strongly on the labour market context. Increased … market capitalization as well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment if the level of labour market regulation … intermediated credit worsens unemployment when the labour market is weakly regulated and coordinated, whereas it reduces …

with a small one. Surprisingly, the end of transition is also characterized by lower unemployment when there are massive … layoffs - because in the short run, the high unemployment implied by the massive decrease makes job creation in the …

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 …