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 …

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum …

constant job and employment duration models show that changes in the durations of the first job and employment - measured as … has not improved after the reforms. The reduction in the duration of the first job has not been counterbalanced by an …

on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …

measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … duration dependence in the exit rates to employment and potential depreciation in reemployment wages. We show that the main … should mainly be used at the beginning of unemployment and for short durations. However, contrary to existing schemes, they …

, but sustainable, recovery. Improvement in the labor market may take some time, but many believe that unemployment will … consequences for unemployment may be worse than anticipated. …

This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany …