overly long unemployment durations. We examine the influence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …

possible between different segments of the labour market, we concentrate on unemployment experience and wage growth for a panel …

. Unemployment insurance has the standard effect of reducing employment, but also helps workers to get a suitable job. The … States in terms of unemployment, productivity growth and wage inequality. To show this, we construct two fictitious economies … with calibrated parameters which only differ by the degree of unemployment insurance and assume that they are hit by a …

Previous estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime commonly omit determinants of criminal behavior that vary … with the business cycle, creating correlation between unemployment rates and the residuals in aggregate crime regressions … accompanying omitted variables bias to estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime. Using a state-level panel for the period …

In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … possible detrimental impacts in unemployment entry effects and unemployment duration effects. We find that unemployment entry … immigration effect on unemployment duration. Within almost all subgroups there is a significant increase in the length of …