This paper analyzes the costs of job loss in China, using unique new data from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China … 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 …

signal of productivity, and duration of unemployment may be positively related to post-laid-off wages even among workers who … the Current Population Survey reveals that the wage/unemployment duration relation differs between laid-off workers and … employer and may choose to remain unemployed rather than to accept a low-wage job. In this case, unemployment can serve as a …

In most countries, the unemployed are entitled to unemployment benefits only if they have previously worked a minimum … period of time. This institutional feature creates a sharp change at eligibility in the disutility from unemployment and may … distort the duration of jobs. In this paper, we evaluate this eligibility effect using a regression discontinuity approach …

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

Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state …-owned enterprises (SOEs), which resulted in massive layoff of the SOEs' workers and a high unemployment rate. In this paper, we … investigate the impact of the parents' job loss on the health of their children, using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition …

There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalities in the Ile … municipality on an exhaustive dataset of all unemployment spells starting in the first semester of 1996. This model allows us to …

exist because of valuable job-matches, unemployment among high-productivity laid-off workers may be optimal from societal … unemployment instead of low-wage jobs, resulting in an inefficient level of unemployment. This paper shows that in such cases, a re …

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 …