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

data are used to estimate the relationship between the incidence and duration of sick leave and subsequent unemployment …. The results indicate that an increase in the number of sick leaves as well as an increase in the duration of sick spells … is associated with higher risk of unemployment. Women have a significantly higher risk then men of unemployment …

shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …

market variables, such as unemployment, wage differentials and employment protection, and to the funding of tertiary …

among men and women. The two reforms in conjunction are estimated to have increased the expected duration of unemployment … among men but to have decreased the duration of unemployment among women. The overall effect on the duration of unemployment …In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was …

duration until treatment and the counterfactual durations until exit. To illustrate the approach, the paper studies the effect … of training for unemployed workers in France, using a rich register data set. Training has little impact on unemployment … duration. The contamination of the standard matching estimator due to later entries into treatment is large if the treatment …

This paper examines if the probability of leaving unemployment changes for unemployed parents with young children when …. The results indicate a positive effect on the probability of leaving unemployment for mothers when childcare is available … probability of leaving unemployment for work when childcare is available for mothers with only compulsory schooling or university …

Previous research suggests that there are substantial interactions between the unemployment insurance (UI) and the … benefits. This paper examines whether these interactions affect the transition rate from unemployment to employment. To study …