model allows for two types of unemployment: frictional unemployment due to search frictions and structural unemployment due … to wage floors. Wage floors exist because of high unemployment benefits or binding minimum wages. The productivity … decompose the total unemployment rate and we examine the effect of changes in the minimum wage. …

model allows for two types of unemployment: frictional unemployment due to search frictions and structural unemployment due … to wage floors. Wage floors exist because of high unemployment benefits or binding minimum wages. The productivity … decompose the total unemployment rate and we examine the effect of changes in the minimum wage. …

as a function of the elapsed unemployment duration. We use a nonparametric estimation method that is designed to be …This paper investigates the degree in which the individual exit rate out of unemployment for young job seekers changes … of unobserved heterogeneity in these data. The model and estimation method explicitly take into account that individual …

as a function of the elapsed unemployment duration. We use a nonparametric estimation method that is designed to be …This paper investigates the degree in which the individual exit rate out of unemployment for young job seekers changes … of unobserved heterogeneity in these data. The model and estimation method explicitly take into account that individual …

In The Netherlands, as in many countries: unemployment rates of lower educated workers are higher and more cyclical … than unemployment rates of higher educated workers. In this paper we test whether this is caused by the fact that more …

-off policy of firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongst lower educated workers and the relatively … strong sensitivity of their unemployment rate to the business cycle. We find that lay-off rates decrease with education but … with a higher level of education can not explain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educated …