This paper examines whether unemployment of non-western immigrant workers in the Netherlands was disproportionally … affected by the Great Recession. We analyze unemployment data covering the period November 2007 to February 2013 finding that … the Great Recession affected unemployment rates of non-western immigrant workers in absolute terms more than unemployment …

This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement …

fired. Therefore a country with a high or an increasing unemployment rate has a low (reported) workplace accident rate. The … inversely related to both the level of unemployment and the change in unemployment. Furthermore, fatal accident rated do not …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of different types of active labor market policies (ALMP). In our … empirical analysis we use data on 20 OECD countries covering the time period 1985-1999. We find that labor market training is … the most effective program to bring down unemployment. Public employment services have some impact while subsidized jobs …

Recent evaluations of active labor market policies are not very optimistic about their effectiveness to bring … job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells …

-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on … impact the labor market. We extend his sample period and add to his parsimonious specification a variety of fixed and time …

data from all four Contingent and Alternative Employment Arrangement Supplements to the Current Population Survey, we …. When we evaluate the use of AWAs against unemployment, there is also evidence that the jobless are entering AWAs as … pathways out of their initial labor market state. …

This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor … policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an application to western Germany it is demonstrated that nonparametric … regression is feasible in higher dimensions with only a few thousand observations. In sum, labor markets able to absorb …