focus is to explore how the conditions in the pre-displacement firm affect the duration of unemployment. The empirical … spent in unemployment. The heterogeneity of the signalling effect across various employee subgroups in the economy is also … and in particular by the conditions in the firms in which they were previously employed. -- unemployment duration …

participation in unemployment spells - to assess the nature of labour market policy effectiveness. The experiment was conducted in … increases in the exit rate from unemployment ranging from 20 to 40%. When introducing time-varying indicators for the various … rate from unemployment, neither during the week in which the activity takes place, nor after the activity is completed …

progress. -- Out of Africa hypothesis ; human genetic diversity ; comparative development ; population density ; Neolithic …

We consider the consequences of working part-time on supplementary unemployment insurance benefits in the Danish labour … out of unemployment insurance benefit receipt. We find evidence of a negative lock-in effect and a positive post …-treatment effect, both of which vary across individuals. The resulting net effect on the expected unemployment duration is positive for …

the transition rate to work does not depend on the timing of the meeting. -- unemployment ; active labor market policy … unemployment to employment using detailed Danish event history data obtained from administrative registers. We find large positive … ; unemployment duration ; treatment effects ; meetings ; job search assistance ; case worker …

While job search theory predicts that active labour market policies (ALMPs) can affect post-unemployment outcomes … unemployment spell. We use a social experiment, which was conducted in Denmark in 2005-6, to investigate the effects of a dramatic … duration dependence to separately identify "indirect" (via shorter unemployment duration) and "direct" (through a more …

This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss … labor market allow making a distinction between the effect of a warning that a person is not complying with eligibility … positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment. Moreover, the stricter the sanction policy the shorter is the duration of …

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 … program was an endogenous policy response to a crisis affecting individuals with severe labor market problems. The main …