This paper provides a unified account of the trends in unemployment and labor force participation pertaining to the … the United States, (ii) the similar but more pronounced decline in Europe alongside rising unemployment rates and (iii …) differences across European countries in the role played respectively by unemployment and labor force participation. The model …

unemployment benefits for older workers helps explain the low rate of employment just before the early retirement age. Decreasing …

Unemployment insurance recipients in the Netherlands were for a long time exempted from the requirement to actively … search requirements have a positive effect on finding rates. -- eligibility criteria ; unemployment benefits ; job finding …

This paper assesses the impact that the 2009 Great Recession had on individual's transitions to and from unemployment … in Ireland. The rate of transition from unemployment to employment declined between 2006 and 2011, while the rate from … employment to unemployment increased. The impact of some of the factors identified as contributing to the likelihood of a …

consider individuals up to three months before the envisaged termination of their employment and we study effects of pre-unemployment …-to-be unemployed. This is driven by workers with a relatively high unemployment risk following registration. Thus, the policies …

models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job creations and destructions, unemployment and wage … optimal level of unemployment benefits, the funding of unemployment insurance and the impact of employment protection …