an on-the-job search is developed, i.e. job seekers who vary in unemployment duration, skills levels and preferences … job placement agencies’ services, as well as minimum wage and unemployment benefits, considerably interact with and … influence unemployment and long-term unemployment ratios, wage levels, duration of periods of unemployment, skills demand, and …

unemployment duration and the quality of reemployment. …

longer employment and unemployment spells, they must contend with lower earnings than tenants upon reemployment. They also …

-term unemployment rates, leading to the need to reform labour market institutions and make them more flexible. Flexible labour markets … employment and unemployment) but also to reduce the negative impacts on labour market of structural shocks. If we focus on the …, the countries with the best results in terms of unemployment and employment would have been those that had a more flexible …

document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to …

, unemployment rate and market tightness as well as on the overall economic growth. We aim at determining whether a portion of … unemployment can be explained by either the increased public hiring or shrinking of the number of public employees in the last … decade. As the results suggest, in recessionary times the expansion of the public sector managed to keep the unemployment …

A historically high level of youth unemployment presents Greece with a huge social and economic challenge. This paper …

2007 that include a longitudinal component. It first shows that sustained economic growth will reduce youth unemployment … reduce youth unemployment. Third, the analysis of labor market characteristics reveals that young graduates experience long … unemployment as they cue for high-skill jobs. Moreover, the public sector remains the main provider of employment opportunities for …

increased flow into unemployment in a recession is mainly due to reduced hirings, and hence lower job-to-job transitions, rather …

Measures of individual happiness, or well-being, can guide labor market policies. Individual unemployment, as well as … the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and … unemployment benefits can contribute to happiness - though when such policies prolong unemployment, the net effect on national …