tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages …

rich data from Russia that cover 89 regions over 10 years, from 2001 to 2010. Our empirical analysis draws on the … minimum wage (captured by the Kaitz index) in a panel setting. We find that the minimum wage raises unemployment among young …

Contrary to the experiences of other countries, perceptions of job insecurity in Russia were not correlated with the … rates of unemployment and the business cycle over the last decade. We develop the theoretical framework that predicts that … the individual perceptions of job insecurity depend on regional unemployment rates and on the within-group variance of …

Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most … public employment in total employment has been greatest where unemployment was highest and growing the fastest, in ethnically … public employment for several purposes: as a kind of economic insurance to cushion the population against unemployment; as a …

likely to cause variation in performance. This paper looks at Russia in particular. The main idea of this paper is to analize …

erwarten viele Beobachter zum Herbst einen dramatischen Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit mit einer baldigen Überschreitung der Vier … den Sommermonaten August und September aller Voraussicht nach völlig ruhig. Saisonal bedingt geht die Arbeitslosigkeit …

Frühjahr 2009 die Arbeitsmarktlage. Das Papier erläutert die Technik der Prognose der Arbeitslosigkeit unter Nutzung der …

geschätzt werden, bestätigen insbesondere die zentrale Bedeutung der Arbeitslosigkeit für die Höhe der Fehlzeiten. Weiterhin …

We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the … effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit … find fairly robust evidence suggesting that the actual generosity of UI does matter for regional unemployment. Increases in …

job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells …