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 …

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 …

to the cycle, but much less to individual unemployment duration. In view of these findings, we argue that active labour …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 …

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

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

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 …