force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are …

Existing unemployment insurance systems in many OECD countries involve a ceiling on insurable earnings. The result is …

previous jobs, and thus much more than they get in unemployment benefits. However, our results also show that some groups, such … demands may contribute to high unemployment. …

Anonymous application procedures (AAP) are increasingly promoted as a way to combat employment discrimination. The idea …

evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment stability, on exits from the labor market and on earnings. In our analysis …. Warnings do not affect subsequent employment stability but do reduce post-unemployment earnings. Actual benefit reductions …This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions ,i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits …

One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies … probability of leaving unemployment? The experiment indicates that a relatively large fraction (one third) of the referrals do not …, especially among young people. However, we find no significant impact on the duration of unemployment. …

-the-job search is a key component in explaining labor market dynamics in models of equilibrium unemployment. The model predicts … fluctuations of unemployment, vacancies, and labor productivity whose relative magnitudes replicate the data. A standard search and … firms?incentives to post new jobs. Labor market tightness as measured by the vacancy-unemployment ratio is as volatile as in …

of unemployment, controlling for personal characteristics and previous job characteristics. Finally, the third … primary determinant of success in moving to employment, and that the use of employment agencies increases the likelihood of …

unemployment to employment. We take advantage of the fact that the reforms had quasi-experimental features where the “treatments …In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was … compensation during the first 20 weeks of unemployment. The 2002 reform retained the two-tiered benefit structure but involved also …

One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies … probability of leaving unemployment? The experiment indicates that a relatively large fraction (one third) of the referrals do not …, especially among young people. However, we find no significant impact on the duration of unemployment. …