This paper analyzes the effect of unemployment insurance sanctions on the transition rate from unemployment to …­als who started collecting unemployment insurance in the Netherlands in 1992. To deal with the selectivity of the occurrence …

-off policy of firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongst lower educated workers and the relatively … strong sensitivity of their unemployment rate to the business cycle. We find that lay-off rates decrease with education but … with a higher level of education can not explain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educated …

job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells …

In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …

fired. Therefore a country with a high or an increasing unemployment rate has a low (reported) workplace accident rate. The … inversely related to both the level of unemployment and the change in unemployment. Furthermore, fatal accident rated do not …

the most effective program to bring down unemployment. Public employment services have some impact while subsidized jobs …

This paper investigates the degree to which the individual exit rate out of unemployment for young job seekers changes … as a function of the elapsed unemployment duration. We use a nonparametric estimation method for population data on …