should be exclusively targeted at unemployed workers with low initial exit rates to employment. For all other workers, they … measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … duration dependence in the exit rates to employment and potential depreciation in reemployment wages. We show that the main …

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

explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate … of employment growth to TFP shocks estimated from Census data induce significant skewness, movements in volatility and …

We investigate the effects of two reforms of temporary employment using panel data on Italian firms. We exploit …

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

program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non …-eligible unemployed in treated regions, and a difference-in-difference identification strategy to control for preexisting differences … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity …

self-employment. Output is reallocated to more productive firms but, given fast labor-productivity growth, this product …

Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that … discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment … as a worker discipline device, considering the different degree of job security offered by the Italian Employment …

In this paper we analyse the short- and long-run relationship between employment growth, inflation and output growth in … causality tests. The empirical results strongly support the existence of a single cointegrating relationship between employment … growth, inflation and output growth with bidirectional causality between employment growth and inflation as well as output …

relation between matches on the one hand and unemployment and vacancies on the other hand can be the result of different …