market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …

We study empirically how various labor market institutions - (i) union density, (ii) unemployment benefit remuneration …, and (iii) employment protection - shape fiscal multipliers and output volatility. Our theoretical model highlights that … emanate from employment protection, followed by union density. While some labor market institutions mitigate the …

We study a large-scale French reform that provided generous downside insurance for unemployed individuals starting a … employment is largely offset by large crowd-out effects. However, because new firms are more productive, the reform has the …

1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … a large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth … tends to decrease suicides. The results also indicate that unemployment benefits decrease suicides of males, while …

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 …

unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high … cyclical behaviour of stocks and flows in the labour market also without search frictions. In periods of high unemployment … unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies. Instead, there are few vacancies when unemployment is high because there is a low …

We provide a unified discussion of the relations among flows of workers, changes in employment and changes in the … number of jobs at the level of the firm. Using the only available set of data (a nationally representative sample of Dutch … firms in 1988 and 1990) we discover that: 1) Nearly half of all hiring is by firms where employment is not growing; 2) Over …

risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …

(replacement) labour income (mostly women) may loose their entitlement after an unemployment duration ranging from two to eight …In Belgium unemployment insurance benefits can only exhaust for one category of workers: partners of workers with … benefit exhaustion on the probability of employment : a standard, a before-after and an IV matching estimator. We conclude …