labour market conditions, the long-term unemployment rate is well above the OECD average. Therefore, the "carrot and stick … reducing long-term unemployment and long-term basic income receipt. An important element is an activation strategy for long …

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

administrative longitudinal databases. Non-employment includes the discouraged unemployed not entitled to draw unemployment benefits …

intervention was highly effective in reducing unemployment duration, but also spurred employment instability and withdrawals from …

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

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 …

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 …