rates of unemployment during their whole prime-age work career. Building on a unique combination of micro- and macro data …

’ transition rates from unemployment to employment.Based on Norwegian register data from the 1989-2002 period, we show that this … indicator,in contrast to the aggregate rate of unemployment, correlates well with an expost-calculated GDP-based business cycle … unemployment rate, both at an aggregate and a disaggregate level, and hence improve policy makers ability to assess current labour …

Based on a combined register database for Norwegian and Swedish unemployment spells, we use the ‘between …-countries-variation’ in the unemployment insurance systems to identify causal effects. The elasticity of the job hazard rate with respect to …

We investigate how unemployment exit probabilities are affected by economic incentives, spell duration and … macroeconomic conditions. Building on a database containing all registered unemployment spells in Norway in 1989-1998, we apply an …