analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …

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 …

This paper studies the effect of two labor market institutions, unemployment insurance (UI) and job search assistance … search unemployment, skill depreciation during unemployment, and idiosyncratic as well as aggregate labor market risk. The … substantial reduction in the output cost of recessions and a more moderate reduction in the welfare cost of recessions in Germany. …

with the hypothesis that locals will provide more tips to the enforcement agency when unemployment is high, we find that … the number of audits conducted grows with increased local unemployment. We also find that a congressman's party …

Many countries suffer from persistently high unemployment rates. The scope for labour market reforms is often limited …

unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced … effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit … the PEA could have had an even higher impact on unemployment reduction if there had been less focus on long …

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …