We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994 …. The effects on the duration of unemployment of important socio-economic and demographic characteristics are explored … besides the impacts of the unemployment benefit system and training schemes. Finally, we investigate whether prior …

of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who … can invest in risk-free physical capital and risky human capital. Unemployed households receive unemployment benefits and … employment effects: the equilibrium unemployment rate has been reduced by approximately 1.1 percentage points from 7.5 to 6 …

This paper analyzes the role of labor market institutions for youth unemployment, as contrasted to total unemployment … high effect of employment protection for regular jobs on youth unemployment. In addition, the combined effects of powerful … establishes significant labor supply effects and effects of the education system on youth and total unemployment. …

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

workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

categories on unemployment have been extensively discussed in the empirical literature. However, interaction effects between … explanatory power of macroeconomic models explaining unemployment. The approach permits to tackle model specification problems …