selection policy can facilitate employment outcomes for new arrivals over the medium run. The results indicate that the … immigrants arriving in Australia at the end of the 1990s. Moreover, approximately half of the fall in men’s unemployment rates … also stems from increases in productive skills, though the substantial decline in women’s unemployment rates are driven …

importance of the potential pathways linking childhood homelessness to adult employment. We use novel panel data that link survey … and men's employment, however, childhood homelessness continues to have a substantial direct effect on male employment …

husbands' job loss, but only if that job loss results in a sustained period of non-employment or if the couple experienced …

introducing non-search activity requirements for unemployment benefit recipients. The Mutual Obligations Initiative (MOI) required … people aged 18-34 receiving unemployment benefits to undertake a range of non-search activities (e.g., volunteering, training … a lower incidence of unemployment benefit receipt in comparison to those whose fathers were not. More detailed …

This paper analyzes the bilateral relationship between depressive symptoms and employment status. We find that severe …'s worsens only after they have been out of the labor force for a period of time. Entering unemployment is also associated with a …'s unemployment is increased by protracted depressive symptoms. …

effort ; reservation wage ; locus of control ; unemployment duration …

This paper analyzes the effects of "shocks" to community-level unemployment expectations, induced by the onset of the … study as despite little change in actual unemployment rates, levels of economic uncertainty grew. This affords us the … identify plausibly causal effects. We find, for boys, there is no detectable effect of community-level unemployment …

turn resulted in higher participation rates and reduced unemployment. At the same time, improvement in Australian labor … the fall in unemployment rates among women and one third the decline among men appears to have occurred as the result of …