Since July 2004 the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants is monitored in Belgium. We exploit the … more heterogeneous. Moreover, in this region, the threat induces women to substitute sickness for unemployment benefits …

This study investigates whether and to what extent further unemployment experience for youths who are already long … aside of transitions from unemployment and employment within a multivariate duration model that controls for selection on … observables and unobservables. We find that prolonging unemployment drastically decreases the chances of finding employment, but …

We verify whether an income support policy for part-time workers in Belgium increases the transition from unemployment …

This paper assesses whether short-lived jobs (lasting one quarter or less and involuntarily ending in unemployment) are …

abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its …

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 …

In this paper, we review the literature on the quot;spikequot; in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion … unemployment spells are measured has a large effect on the magnitude of the spike at exhaustion, both in existing studies and in … defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …