flexible multi-state Mixed Proportional Hazard specifications for transition rates between employment, unemployment, and …' transition rates from unemployment to employment increase. Longer periods of non-employment generally decrease future transition … welfare/non-participation. Our main finding is that after longer periods of employment with high income, individuals …

economic turmoil in 1992-1995. Despite the catastrophic fall in GDP employment contracted only marginally. This flexibility has … been achieved mainly through the informalization of employment, and through the reallocation of labor towards small … of the Georgian labor force relies on self-employment as the primary means to earn an income. For some, this is an avenue …

workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …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 …

of time-varying policy and institutional regressors. Yet another is our examination of unemployment and participation … outcomes in addition to employment effects. We report strong evidence of adverse employment effects among adult females and … lower participation, even if the unemployment effects are muted. Although we report some similar findings to Neumark and …

, finally, (vii) What is the overall cross-country time-series evidence regarding the employment effect of the minima? The aim …

inequality through a relative increase in the wages at the upper parts of an establishment’s wage distribution. …

This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the … increased bite of the NMW is associated with falls in lower tail wage inequality. Moreover, while the average employment effect … of the NMW over the entire period is broadly neutral, there are small but significant positive employment estimates from …

explains the gains in competitiveness but increases unemployment and inequality, and the subsequent labour market reforms lower … both higher inequality and higher unemployment; 3) The implementation of the reform reduces unemployment, but also … decreases the exports/production ratio and increases inequality. The model also predicts that the reduction in unemployment in …

The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the … disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more … implement broad-based reform strategies. Our analysis suggests that major unemployment policies are characterised by economic …

50 states and D.C., job search is inversely related to the generosity of unemployment benefits, with an elasticity … of 2.5; 5) job search intensity for those eligible for Unemployment Insurance (UI) increases prior to benefit exhaustion …; 6) time devoted to job search is fairly constant regardless of unemployment duration for those who are ineligible for UI …