Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in … asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment, whereas linear models with Gaussian innovations preclude such dynamics. This … paper applies several tests for asymmetry to aggregate British, German and US unemployment data to assess the relevance of …

This paper analyzes transitions into and out of 3 different labor market states, social assistance, unemployment and … that immigrants are more likely to receive both social assistance and unemployment compensation than natives. Immigrants … unemployment insurance in a year, given participation in the previous year. The empirical results suggest that refugee immigrants …

distribution. The conventional method of analysis is regression of summary inequality indices on variables such as the unemployment …

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … aggregate measures of unemployment responses to temporary and permanent shocks. These measures are temporal (depicting how long …

Swiss policy makers created a unique link between unemployment benefits and Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) by … making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of … Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we …

Labor market frictions are not the only possible factor responsible for high unemployment. Credit market imperfections … European and US unemployment differ so much when labor markets have become more similar at the margin in Europe and the US. To …

This study analyses the effects of public sector sponsored vocational training on individual unemployment and … participation in public vocational training significantly decreases unemployment duration or increases employment duration. …