paternal unemployment delays sons’ school-to-work transitions and thus leads to a spell of early career non-employment. The … results show that substantial delaying effects of fathers’ unemployment exist and that they are heterogeneous among … educational groups. Therefore, paternal unemployment implies long-run intergenerational costs by hindering sons’ smooth school …

implications of biased expectations for wage bargaining, vacancy creation, worker flows and labor market policies. Importantly, we … find that the specific assumption about the frequency of wage bargaining crucially shapes the propagation mechanism through …

-term unemployment insurance has not received much attention. In this paper we examine distributional effects of labour earnings and … unemployment benefits using simulated increases in unemployment insurance replacement rates or equivalently, increases in the net … negative labour supply effects, drawing those employed into unemployment shifting the mass of the earnings distribution to the …

This paper estimates the employment effects of industry-specific, collectively-bargained minimum wages in Germany for … significantly negative employment effect, even though the minimum wage is binding in (East) Germany. This result can be explained by …

between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend … rate from unemployment to employment. -- Labor force ; unemployment dynamics ; business cycle ; worker heterogeneity …The aggregate average unemployment rate in a given country is essentially the result of individual workers' transitions …

This study reviews the evidence on the labor market impact of youth employment programs. We analyze the effectiveness …-third of youth employment program evaluations worldwide show a significant positive impact on labor market outcomes - either … employment rates or earnings. In general, programs have been more successful in middle- and low-income countries; this may be …

While high rates of youth unemployment are a severe problem in most European countries, the program evaluation … measures are thus needed, we evaluate a German pilot program that targets low-skilled young unemployed and combines three …, our analysis shows that the program has a positive impact on the post-program employment probability of participants …

short-run treatment effects on a comprehensive set of outcomes including employment and earnings as well as measures of … personality traits and risk behavior. We find positive short-run employment and earnings impacts five months after the program …

depends on the county unemployment rate relative to the national average - 12 months of PBD above a cut-off of 125 per cent … administrative data cover unemployment spells for prime age workers during the years 2006-2018. A one-month shorter PBD decreases … average benefit duration by 0.5 months and average unemployment duration by 0.4 months. The PBD reduction by six months …

employment and working hours. The correlation with real hourly wages of teenagers is positive. These results are robust to the …