-kind benefits and the propensity to have an informal employment relationship in addition to monthly earnings, hourly wages …

Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their … their future outcomes are determined by external factors have lower reservation wages …

unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings. We also analyze whether displaced workers are more likely to be in informal … costs as additional outcomes. Displaced migrant workers do not encounter losses in terms of longer unemployment spells or …

undeclared wages in formal jobs. We also pursue the issues whether displaced workers experience more involuntary informal … informal employment as well as shares of undeclared wages in formal jobs. Our results also show that displacement entraps some …

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 …

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 …

margin since it is driven by flows from permanent wage employment to unemployment. We also show that older, non-Latvian and …

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment … much lower in Romania and slightly lower in Estonia, and alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania …