This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human … 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 …

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

-sectional differences in the incidence of long-term unemployment. The negative impact of low levels of skill and education is muted by the … 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 …

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

unemployment and its underlying duration distribution. We develop an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic … equilibrium model with heterogenous labor markets. In this model three different types of unemployment arise: search, rest and … cyclical unemployment to be highly volatile. The resulting unemployment duration distribution generated by the model responds …

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 …

We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate a scheme that monitors job search effort and … unemployed to front-load search effort prior to monitoring. This causes the job finding rate to increase above the post sanction …

especially important early in the unemployment spell. Our results are robust across various specifications and for two …

typical job search monitoring scheme in unemployment insurance (UI) and acknowledges that search effort and requirements are …We build and estimate a non-stationary structural job search model that incorporates the main stylized features of a … measured imperfectly. Based on Belgian data, monitoring is found to affect search behavior only weakly, because (i) assessments …

This paper assesses whether short-lived jobs (lasting one quarter or less and involuntarily ending in unemployment) are … two steps. First, we estimate labour market trajectories in a multi-spell duration model that incorporates lagged duration …