overly long unemployment durations. We examine the infuence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …

.1 percentage points among women. The reforms had large spillover effects to the unemployment insurance program but negligible … effects on disability insurance claims. Specifically, unemployment increased by roughly 10 percentage points both among men … government expenditures would have amounted to 264 million Euros per year. Due to higher unemployment insurance claims and …

This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement …

It is frequently argued that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right- wing extremist crimes. We … unemployment is high. The big difference in right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to … differences in unemployment. This finding reinforces the importance of unemployment as an explanatory factor for right-wing crime …

We study the long-run effects of initial labor market conditions on wages for a large sample of male individuals … entering the Austrian labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a robust negative effect of unfavorable entry conditions on … on lifetime earnings result. We also show that initial labor market conditions have smaller and less persistent effects …