It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at thesame time active labor market …

signiffcantly below those of a control group, even after six years. -- fertility ; unemployment ; plant closings ; human capital …

overly long unemployment durations. We examine the infuence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after … observed productivity. -- unemployment ; job search ; overconfidence …

than 3000 students in 10 countries. We explain observed excess time to graduation by paying special attention to labor … market variables, such as unemployment, wage differentials and employment protection, and to the funding of tertiary …

evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment stability, on exits from the labor market and on earnings. In our analysis …This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits … as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we …

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings …

We estimate the causal effect of parents' unemployment on unemployment among their children in their own adulthood. We …) identification strategy using parents' job loss during a mass layoff as the instrument. We find evidence of unemployment inheritance … in the next generation. An additional day of unemployment during childhood causally raises the average unemployment days …