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 …

unemployment to employment using detailed Danish event history data obtained from administrative registers. We find large positive …

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …, and we examine how often a sanction leads to a lower occupational level. The data cover the Swedish population over 1999 …

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 …

participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably employment and annual income, as well as on the labor market equilibrium … data are based on a number of matched longitudinal administrative data sets covering the full population of Sweden. For the …

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 …