Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment …

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … aggregate measures of unemployment responses to temporary and permanent shocks. These measures are temporal (depicting how long …

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers? assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …

Health and Retirement Study. Previous studies find a strong negative correlation between unemployment and health. To control …

data are based on a number of matched longitudinal administrative data sets covering the full population of Sweden. For the …

The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an individual?s use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a … Sweden. Subsequent participation in the Canadian program is influenced by parental UI history. In Sweden individual learning …

We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the … effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit … find fairly robust evidence suggesting that the actual generosity of UI does matter for regional unemployment. Increases in …

-employment dynamics and the factors influencing entry and exit rates from self-employment. Using a large panel data set for Sweden, this …. For both men and women those who enter from unemployment or inactivity are less successful in terms of income and the … employment status, we find that those who entered from unemployment or inactivity face a higher risk of returning to one of these …