We study how the transparency of welfare systems affects labor market outcomes of unemployed workers in a large … reflecting individuals' job search status. Providing personalized information improves labor market outcomes by mitigating the …

Social networks may affect workers' labor market outcomes. Using rich spatial data from administrative records, we …

We examine the impact of real oil price shocks on labor market flows in the U.S. We first use smooth transition … regression (STR) models to investigate to what extent oil prices can be considered as a driving force of labor market … (iii) they bring a new amplification mechanism for the volatility and should thus be seen as complementary of labor …

The recent financial crises, alongside a dramatic rise in unemployment on both sides of the Atlantic, suggest that … financial shocks do translate into the labor markets. In this paper we first document that financial recessions amplify labor … shocks to job destruction, presenting and solving a simple model of labor market search and endogenous finance. While finance …

As a preliminary step, we first provide some new empirical evidence that labor market conditions affect retirement … propose an equilibrium unemployment approach to retirement decisions that allows us to unveil the factors which explain why …: the retirement decision of unemployed workers depends on the labor-market frictions whereas that of employed workers does …

inflation and unemployment differentials. Second, we find that asymmetries in labor market structures tend to increase the …How does the asymmetry of labor market institutions affect the adjustment of a currency union to shocks? To answer this … and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we focus on the differentials in inflation and unemployment between countries …

the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten … only increase the unemployment among migrants but also departure from the country. Scenarios also indicate that an increase …

This study aims at estimating the stigma effect of unemployment and overeducation within one framework. To this end, we … from the employer side, we find evidence for a larger stigma effect of unemployment than overeducation. The stigma effect …