male and female workers in West Germany. The analysis distinguishes different types of career absence: unemployment …. Unemployment decreases wages in the short term only, and for women more strongly than for men. Maternity leave leads to substantial …

must devise different programs to address unemployment among young and older individuals. The solution to youth … unemployment is the creation of more jobs, and combining differential minimum wage levels and earned income tax credits might …

Since the beginning of the recession period in Europe, unemployment has greatly affected the young adult population. In … this context, Spain is regarded as an extreme case, due to its exceptionally high youth unemployment rates. This article … with higher levels of unemployment and instability during the Great Recession than others. To do this, retrospective data …

unemployment is one explanation. In this paper, we focus on the unemployed's expectations of being stigmatized (stigma …

them to re‑enter the labour market, resulting in further long‑term unemployment. Given these high costs for …

reform on the unemployment rate and the average unemployment duration using municipality-level panel data and various panel … data estimators. We found that while the reform had a barely discernible effect on municipal unemployment rates, it … increased average unemployment durations by 2-3 weeks. Hence, face-to-face counselling and online counselling are not perfect …

between skills and unemployment flows across 37 countries. Depending on the specifically assessed domain, I document that … skills have an unconditional correlation with the log-risk-ratio of exiting to entering unemployment of 0.65-0.68 across the …