immigration, low-skilled unemployment, and mediumskill downgrading, ii) the increase in low skill intensive service jobs. The … workers decreases the low-skilled unemployment rate under endogenous benefits; (ii) migration of only medium skilled labor has …

We analyse the role that education signals play in the transition rates from unemployment to finding a job. We compare …

jurisdictions, public inputs may also be overprovided if unemployment is caused by a fixed wage above the competitive wage rate. In …

We study the effect of trade liberalization and intellectual property rights (IPR) protection on the unemployment rate … migration. We find that bilateral trade liberalization decreases the relative unemployment rate of migrants when migration is … low and increases the relative unemployment rate when the migration rate is high. The results do not rely on assumptions …

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 …

measuring the additional time spent in unemployment before being hired in a new occupation. Furthermore, I inspect the wage … changes after reallocation and find that workers who change occupations through unemployment face wage losses. Interpreted …

unemployment duration and the quality of reemployment. …

total number of outflows from unemployment into employment at the regional level. To answer this question, we use data for …-seekers subject to unemployment insurance. As microeconometric evaluation studies show, the search effectiveness of programme …