In Finland the elderly unemployed are allowed to collect unemployment benefits up to the age of 60, when they can … retire via a particular unemployment pension. In 1997 the eligibility age of persons benefiting from this scheme was raised … from 53 to 55. We consider changes in the risk of unemployment, unemployment durations, and the exit states before and …

duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s … unemployment is not directly observed. For this reason we bound the reform effect on unemployment duration over different … parametric model assumptions. We identify a systematic increase in unemployment duration in response to the reform in samples …

on the individual unemployment duration in West Germany. By applying a multivariate mixed proportional hazards model, we … are able to consider information of the timing of treatment in the unemployment spell as well as observable and …

by comparing the future situation of (?treated?) unemployed entering into FTCs after a particular unemployment duration … employment and unemployment. The empirical analysis is based on propensity score matching methods, obtaining the effects of FTCs … persons entering into FTCs after a certain number of month of unemployment are reasonable. A first counterfactual is never to …

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 … heterogeneity, we find that the probability of finding a job increases, especially for men, with the duration of unemployment. …

This paper studies how cognitive and social skills in childhood are related to the duration of unemployment in … from unemployment to employment during an individual's first unemployment spell. The analysis is based on British cohort …

the one hand, wages are lowered and unemployment decreases, on the other hand, the individual labour supply decision is … progressivity is below the actual level. A decomposition approach shows that the optimal level is increased by high unemployment and …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …