estimation based on stochastic non-smooth envelopment of data (StoNED) allows for productivity estimation with few microeconomic …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …

We investigate hysteresis and persistence behaviour in the course of unemployment in EU countries and US states by … latter control for dependencies. The first generation tests indicate, that unemployment is persistent, but nevertheless …. Hysteresis in EU unemployment is attributed to the idiosyncratic, but not to the common component. In contrast, idiosyncratic …