This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based … on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is … broken down into the risk of entering unemployment and the risk, once unemployed, of not getting reemployed. The paper …

On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to … education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education … level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show that an increase in regional unemployment by 1% decreases the returns …

, open unemployment. Creating viable and lasting employment is vital to reduce poverty and spread prosperity in the region …

focus on unemployment. The main policies aimed at protecting workers against unemployment are analyzed. Using administrative … labor market. Finally, an impact evaluation of recent changes in the unemployment insurance program is presented. …

length of unemployment episodes after the training of the respondent, but also the duration of his/her employment spells. The …

differences across countries. In the major European countries, unemployment has increased dramatically over the past two decades …

expenditures on education and health; and (3) social indicators (inequality, unemployment, homicide rates, and schooling …

creation, and unemployment rates have stagnated at about 10 percent. Informal sector employment has expanded, and increases in … unemployment rates, while price stabilization and structural reforms have affected the composition of labor demand and relative …