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 analyzes the labor mobility and human capital accumulation of male immigrants who moved from the former …-collar occupations, where the labor market randomly offered opportunities are affected by past choices. The estimated model well fits the … observed patterns of the fast decrease in unemployment as immigrants first find blue-collar jobs and attend training, followed …

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

Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a … fact a significant positive relation between unemployment and rightwing criminal activities. We show further that the big … difference in right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to differences in unemployment. This …

This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply … questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual … dynamic optimization theory. We develop a general framework for the labor market where the search for a job involves dynamic …

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 …

mainly from the impact of training on the job offer probabilities and, consequently, on unemployment, and not, as …