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 …

combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …

The Macedonian labor market exhibits a high unemployment rate, yet does not demonstrate obvious and large enough …

The three-point VAT increase is part of a package in which unemployment payroll taxes will be reduced. Risks to the …