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 …

search productivity of unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant …The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in an … increasing benefits, moral hazard problems for constant benefits and decreasing search productivity for decreasing benefits. …

The paper develops a two-sector general equilibrium search model where 'goods' are produced exclusively in the market … and 'services' are produced both in the market and within the households. We use the model to examine how unemployment and … services reduces unemployment whereas a tax cut on goods has no effect. A reform involving tax differentiation, with lower …

selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …

-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 …

The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and nonparticipation. The … worker may prefer nonparticipation if the disutility of search is amplified by sickness. The decisions governing labor force …

small reduction in the unemployment benefits, or introducing a small cash bonus for workers that get a new job, may have no … e.ect on unemployment in some cases, while eradicating significant levels of unemployment in other cases. Our analysis … multiple equilibria may exist in a game involving both workers and an unemployment-averse government. Furthermore, we explore a …

unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … prospects interacts with aggregate conditions to drive fluctuations of aggregate unemployment and its duration distribution. …

mobility or mobility shocks, we propose a multi-sector business cycle model with on-the-job search and endogenous occupational …

We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a … likely to exist also in other countries. -- unemployment ; optimal unemployment insurance ; liquidity constraints ; mental …