unemployment as well as across different subgroups of participants. We find that participating in short-term training reduces the … remaining time in unemployment and moderately increases job stability. Long-term training programs initially prolong the … remaining time in unemployment, but once the scheduled program end is reached participants exit to employment at a much faster …

indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings …

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 …

We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a …

We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the … find a hump-shaped relationship between unemployment and our proxy for the speed of reform. The current unemployment in … China, furthermore, appears to be close to the level associated with optimal speed of transition …

a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major …

2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter …

show that roughly 50% of the observed raw differential in individual dismissal rates can be explained by the estimated …