In this paper, we use unique data from a field experiment in the Swedish labor market toinvestigate how past and … contemporary unemployment affect a young worker’s probability ofbeing invited to a job interview. In contrast to studies using … forunobserved heterogeneity. We find no evidence that recruiting employers use informationabout past unemployment to sort workers …

unemployment, which we calibrateon EU15 and US data. Labor market imperfections are found to significantly increase thevolume of … role of labor market imperfections and institutions. We setup atwo-country overlapping generations model with search … to investigate how demographicasymmetries may have contributed to unemployment and welfare changes in the recent past …

protection, unemployment insurancebenefits and minimum income support, working time flexibility and wage setting played acrucial … role in determining to what extent the economic crisis led to higher unemployment,wage cuts or income losses and rising …

policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We performthe first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults … in France, exploiting a uniquelongitudinal dataset from the unemployment insurance system... …

Although an inverse relationship between sickness absence and unemployment has beendocumented in a number of studies … whether this empiricalregularity is due to changes in the individual costs of absence when unemployment increases …

fundamental role in shaping unemployment movements. Thisrole has generally been examined by considering indirect transmission …-equation unemployment rate models... …

In this paper we use Portuguese data on individual (multiple) unemployment spells and applysemi-parametric duration … persons with muscular, skeletal, geriatricand sensorial problems experience the longest unemployment spells. Organic (blind …