This paper addresses the question of why high unemployment rates tend to persist even after their proximate causes have …

We analyse benefit-entitlement effects and the likely impact of the recent reform of the unemployment compensation … system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre … unemployed who are eligible to means-tested unemployment assistance after the exhaustion of unemployment benefit, but not for …

appears that the activation program is very effective. The median unemployment duration of the control group is 14 weeks …

This paper estimates the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Job search theory implies that if … Unemployment Insurance (UI) extensions do not affect wages conditional on the month of unemployment exit, then reservation wages do … not bind on average. Then, UI extensions affect mean wages only through unemployment durations and are valid instrumental …

involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed unemployment duration in the reservation wage equation. Our analysis … duration coefficient suggests that higher reservation wages negatively influence the probability of exiting unemployment …

individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that … system of governance are also shaped by the unemployment rate in countries with low levels of democracy. The results suggest … that periods of high unemployment and joblessness could hinder the development of democracy or threaten its existence …

This paper analyses the impact of the global economic crisis on unemployment and long term unemployment in the OECD. It … unemployment increases with the unemployment rate, there is persistence in long term unemployment, and that the employment … significant financial crisis and a collapse of the housing market bubble have had large increases in unemployment and long term …

which the labor market is now only slowly recovering. The unemployment rate remains stubbornly high and durations of … unemployment are unprecedentedly long. I use data from the Displaced Workers Survey (DWS) from 1984-2010 to investigate the …

In response to the Great Recession and sustained labor market downturn, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI … extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the …