Using Portuguese data, this paper investigates the effects of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and …

We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job … search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of … benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across the board reduction in the replacement rate. …

the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average and …

This paper uses panel data techniques to examine the relationship between unemployment and a range of categories of … to investigate the possibility of a causal relationship between unemployment and crime. Hypothesis tests show that the … that unemployment cannot explain changes in the overall crime rate, although significant effects on crime are found for …

In order to alleviate unemployment it is often recommended to reduce social security contributions (SSC) and to … compensate for the ensuing loss in revenues by a rise in the value-added tax (VAT). Assuming unemployment to be caused by … neutralised, for example, by imposing a constant wedge, the employment impact will depend on the nature of the unemployment …