unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross …

This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks … regions to identify the effect of extended benefits on unemployment duration. Results indicate that the duration of job search … is prolonged by at least .09 weeks per additional week of benefits among men, whereas unemployment duration increases by …

Long-term unemployment reached unprecedented levels in Spain in the wake of the Great Recession and it still affects … around 57% of the unemployed. We document the sources that contributed to the rise in long-term unemployment and analyze its … characteristics such as mature age, lack of experience, and entitlement to unemployment benefits are key to understand the cross …

interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states – employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) the … and allow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for the US is consistent with an unemployment …

measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … should mainly be used at the beginning of unemployment and for short durations. However, contrary to existing schemes, they …