increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …

unemployment has a weak positive effect on the probability of filling a vacancy, while the number of vacancies in the local labor …

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …

employment status affects both the level and the persistence of unemployment and numerically that these effects are substantial … to explain the high and persistent European unemployment. …

employment status affects both the level and the persistence of unemployment and numerically that these effects are substantial … exp lain the high and persistent European unemployment. …

-matching theory, job creation in a firm should depend on the availability of workers (unemployment) and on the number of job openings … in other firms (congestion). According to efficiency wage and bargaining theory, wages are set above the market clearing … of the search-matching theory. …

a severe macroeconomic recession with mass unemployment. By the early 1990s, workers on fixed-term contracts accounted …

A vast literature has investigated how unemployment insurance (UI) affects labor supply. However, the distorting effect … deterministic relationship between previous earnings and unemployment benefits. The ran domized assignment of benefits created by … the kink allows me to identify how UI affect the use of private wealth to finance consumption during unemployment spells …

A vast literature has investigated how unemployment insurance (UI) affects labor supply. However, the distorting effect … deterministic relationship between previous earnings and unemployment benefits. The randomized assignment of benefits created by the … kink allows me to identify how UI affect the use of private wealth to finance consumption during unemployment spells. Using …