theoretic framework. Utilizing an RD design, we analyse responses to a nationwide Swedish youth activation program. We find that …

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 … interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market …

large and persistent negative relationships between unemployment and the risk of repeated unemployment and being out of … unemployment has a negative effect on later labor market attachment. This is consistent with existing findings in the literature … present in the data before changing the inference. Thus, unemployment leaves young workers with long-term scars …

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 … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …

This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …

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 …

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of … life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper … shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any amenity on wages and unemployment rates are of opposite sign …

the appropriate distinction may not be between employment and unemployment, but rather between higher and lower levels of …The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a … regional unemployment. However, the insecure employed and the poor-prospect unemployed are less negatively, or even positively …

This paper examines the degree of persistence of youth unemployment (total, male and female) in twenty-four countries … are necessary to prevent short-term unemployment from becoming structural (long-term) …