suggest that generous unemployment insurance and a dual-earner norm shield families from financial distress, which together …

unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … countercyclical net occupational mobility, the large volatility of unemployment and the cyclical properties of the unemployment …

How effective are effort targets? This paper provides novel evidence on the effects of job search requirements on … search effort, instrumenting individual requirements with caseworker stringency. Identification is ensured by the conditional …, an additionally provided monthly application decreases the length of spells by 4%. In line with theory, we further find …

In many developing economies rate of unemployment is increasing with skill accumulation and thereby leading to … also how skill formation or education affects unemployment among the remaining uneducated. We have developed a general … equilibrium model of a small open developing economy incorporating skill formation, unemployment of unskilled labour in the formal …