by comparing the future situation of ("treated") unemployed entering into FTCs after a particular unemployment duration … employment and unemployment. The empirical analysis is based on propensity score matching methods, obtaining the effects of FTCs … persons entering into FTCs after a certain number of month of unemployment are reasonable. A first counterfactual is never to …

unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross …

heterogeneity into account. Our results indicate that participation in JCSs increases the unemployment duration mainly due to …-of-events approach, we estimate multivariate discrete time duration models taking selection based on both observed and unobserved … leave unemployment quicker than other groups, which results in highly skilled women benefiting from participation. However …

This paper studies how cognitive and social skills in childhood are related to the duration of unemployment in …, parenting activities and school characteristics. -- Unemployment duration ; social skills ; noncognitive skills ; cognitive … from unemployment to employment during an individual’s first unemployment spell. The analysis is based on British cohort …

unemployed in Germany. We address endogeneity by exploiting technological peculiarities in the network that affected the roll … the unemployment spell. This is confirmed by complementary analysis with individual survey data suggesting that online job … search leads to additional formal job interviews after a few months in unemployment. …

us to assess the effect of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and, in a new departure, the impact of …

policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an application to western Germany it is demonstrated that nonparametric … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up …

of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who … can invest in risk-free physical capital and risky human capital. Unemployed households receive unemployment benefits and … employment effects: the equilibrium unemployment rate has been reduced by approximately 1.1 percentage points from 7.5 to 6 …