interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

Our paper revisits Okun's relationship between observed unemployment rates and output gaps. We include in the … unemployment rate) over time. The Okun coefficient is not only different for young, prime-age and older workers, it decreases with … reducing the overall unemployment rate, it will also have the distributional effect of lowering youth unemployment. …

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 …

peak at 12 months. 5) The probability of a wage change is positively correlated with the unemployment rate and with the …

job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells …

fired. Therefore a country with a high or an increasing unemployment rate has a low (reported) workplace accident rate. The … inversely related to both the level of unemployment and the change in unemployment. Furthermore, fatal accident rated do not …

The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which … the unemployment rate decreased a lot. A common feature of the successful countries is that they implemented a …

contributions to welfare for a set of European OECD countries (Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain), using industry …

This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance the benefit replacement rate (RR …) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the …