job applicants by employment status affects both the level and the persistence of unemployment and numerically that these ….) could potentially help to explain the high and persistent unemployment in Europe. …

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …

-sector general quilibrium model featuring matching frictions, heterogenous abilities and an informal sector with tax evasion. The …

unemployment among job-seekers. Using exact matching on labour market history and personal characteristics we find positive effects … effect of the length is found on unemployment, employment or wages. Overall, the results suggest that receiving a fixed term … contract reduces the risk of future unemployment, and that a longer contract increases the position within the workplace but …

This paper investigates the consequences of skill loss as a result of unemployment in an efficiency wage model with …, this will result in a lengthy adjustment process with substantial long run unemployment effects. Moreover, the model is …

Unemployment immediately upon graduation is associated with substantial and permanent future earnings losses. Even for … very short unemployment spells the estimated earnings losses are statistically significant. These results are stable for … educational level, and for choice of method i.e. OLS and propensity score matching. This lends some support for the interpretation …

Swedish unemployment was very low up to the early 1990s when it rose rapidly. At the same time manufacturing employment …