Amongst the active labor market policy programs for the unemployed in Sweden, the vocational employment training … program is the most ambitious and expensive. We analyze its effect on the individual transition rate from unemployment to … effect of training in the presence of selectivity on unobservables. The data contain the full population of unemployed in the …

firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongstlower educated workers and the relatively strong … level of education can notexplain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educatedworkers. We conclude …

care system on unemployment durations. We estimate that for around 25% of unemployed workers, removing the channel that … enables strategic sick reporting reduces the mean unemployment duration by 4 days. …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …

noncompliance in a dynamic context. In an empirical application, we evaluate the French labor market policy reform PARE which … abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … additional active labor market policy measures. The estimated effect of the reform on the survival function of the duration of …

noncompliance in a dynamic context. In an empirical application, we evaluate the French labor market policy reform PARE which … abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … additional active labor market policy measures. The estimated effect of the reform on the survival function of the duration of …