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 …

We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of … changes in the real minimum wage rate on an individual's employment status. We focus on workers employed at wages close enough … minimum wage. We find that movements in the American real minimum wage are associated with no employment effects, whereas …

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 …

We investigate the effect of counseling and monitoring on the individual transition rate to employment. We …

The relationship between unemployment benefit duration, unemployment duration and subsequent job duration is … be correlated with unemployment duration as well as accepted job duration. I examine two potential explanations for the … relationship between unemployment and job spell durations; UI benefits increase job matching quality vs unobserved heterogeneity. I …

Insurance Compensation (UIC) on both unemployment and employment durations. This results in the first available assessment of …In this paper, U.S. data on labor market histories of displaced workers are used to quantify the effect of Unemployment …' knowledge of the UIC eligibility rules. Being entitled to UIC shortens workers' employment durations. This negative effect on …

The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an individual's use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a …

This report analyzes the employment and unemployment experiences of adult foreign-born men, both among themselves and … dependent variables are analyzed, weeks worked (employment) in 1989, unemployment status in the reference week in 1990, and a … employment and unemployment of schooling, labor market experience, marital status and the agricultural sector, in addition to …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …