estimate grouped competing risk hazard rate models for transitions between employment, unemployment and non-participation. The … covariates, there is a strong negative duration dependence in transitions from unemployment to employment. Economic incentives … play an important role in transitions from unemployment to employment, as well as in transitions from employment to …

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 …

A link between lack of employment and poverty is often made implicitly, but can rarely be enumerated in any sort of … satisfactory manner. We would therefore like to ask the question: to what extent does acquiring employment increase a poor … the analysis. We distinguish between full-time and part-time employment and also include an investigation into the effect …

This paper examines the intergenerational correlation in unemployment in Norway and, by use of the sibling … unemployment. Confirming existing evidence, I find a substantial intergenerational correlation in unemployment. Approximately half … measures of parental unemployment. …

We investigate empirically the effect of government purchases on unemployment in 20 OECD countries, for the period 1960 …-2007. Compared to earlier studies we use a data set with more variation in unemployment, and which allows for controlling for a host … unemployment; an increase equal to one percent of GDP reduces unemployment by 0.2 percentage point in the same year. The effect is …

Entwicklungen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt, die Einkommensverteilung, die Bildungspolitik, den Finanzsektor, die Eurokrise und die …

declining unemployment are important to identify assimilation effects on immigrant earnings. We show that this is the case for … that local labour market conditions impact the rate of the earnings assimilation. We interpret the effect of unemployment …