This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment …. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into selfemployment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the … measurement errors induced by the pseudo panel structure. We find that previous (longterm) unemployment significantly increases …

high severance payments are likely to decrease unemployment but systematically decrease welfare and raise inequality …

We analyze how wage setting institutions and job-security provisions interact on unemployment. The assumption that … exercises suggest that redundancy transfers and administrative dismissal restrictions have negligeable unemployment effects when … wages are flexible or when the minimum wage is low, but a dramatic positive impact on unemployment when there is a high …

. For both men and women those who enter from unemployment or inactivity are less successful in terms of income and the … employment status, we find that those who entered from unemployment or inactivity face a higher risk of returning to one of these …

This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis," according to which the behavior of the … labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … equilibrating mechanisms to ensure unemployment invariance and that other markets may perform part of the equilibrating process as …

The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the … workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …

transition probabilities between the labor market states of employment, unemployment and out-of-the labor force under Markovian … in unemployment rates of these groups. Second, we present estimates of gender-specific multinomial logit models to … have higher unemployment rates than urban men because they have lower probability of exiting unemployment for a job and …

We explore the implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by unemployment accounts (UA). Under … the UA system, employed people would be required to make ongoing contributions to their unemployment accounts, and the … balances in these accounts would then be available to them during periods of unemployment. The government would be able to …