This paper proposes a protocol for considering the social cost of unemployment by taking into account three different … aspects: incidence, severity and hysteresis. Incidence refers to the conventional unemployment rate; severity takes in both … unemployment duration and the associated income loss; and hysteresis refers to the probability of remaining unemployed. The social …

using the micro-data, this paper shows that this state of non-searching unemployment or discouragement has increased more … some of the jobless with considerable movements between the two categories of unemployment. These findings from the first … unemployment, which includes discouraged workers. In response to these labour market challenges, the government should further …

found that Internet job search (IJS) was associated with longer unemployment durations in 1998/2000 – using comparable data … from a decade later. We find that IJS now appears to be effective: it reduces individual workers' unemployment durations by …. IJS appears to be most effective in reducing unemployment durations when used to contact friends and relatives, to send …

This paper examines whether or not a prolonged unemployment period can raise the quality of job matching after … unemployment. We focus on job tenure as an indicator of a good quality job match after unemployment. We match two sets of Japanese … seekers receiving unemployment insurance, and the other includes information about job seekers applying for jobs.We first show …

incentives due to higher net earnings. Additional earnings during unemployment might lead to higher reservation wages prolonging … the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh …

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 … attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness absence during …

In this paper, we review the literature on the quot;spikequot; in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion … unemployment spells are measured has a large effect on the magnitude of the spike at exhaustion, both in existing studies and in … defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …