Long-term unemployment reached unprecedented levels in Spain in the wake of the Great Recession and it still affects … around 57% of the unemployed. We document the sources that contributed to the rise in long-term unemployment and analyze its … characteristics such as mature age, lack of experience, and entitlement to unemployment benefits are key to understand the cross …

private sector? This paper investigates these issues using data and a tax-benefit simulation for Ireland, a country which …

worker-job complementarity, we estimate how interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills map into job offers, unemployment and …

serious pitfalls. Three canonical variates used in the literature – the minimum unemployment rate during a worker's time at … the firm (min u), the unemployment rate at the start of her tenure (Su) and the current unemployment rate interacted with … because a differential wage response to unemployment of new hires and incumbents will appear under both equal treatment and …

exacerbates unemployment. Our richer setting allows for generational differences in the motivations for job search to be reflected … in two distinct inverted U‐shaped relationships between unemployment and high‐wage employment, one for youth and a … different one for adults. In turn, the relationship between overall unemployment and high‐wage employment is shown to be non …