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 …

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 …

-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 …

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 …

-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 …

Youth unemployment is an issue of primary concern in Western European countries. In this paper we analyze dynamics in … unemployment for youths, adults (prime-aged individuals), and elderly. We use quarterly French unemployment data, stratified by … youths. Seasonal effects affect youth unemployment mainly by fluctuations in the inflow. The results are used for a policy …

Youth unemployment is an issue of primary concern in Western European countries. In this paper we analyze dynamics in … unemployment for youths, adults (prime-aged individuals), and elderly. We use quarterly French unemployment data, stratified by … youths. Seasonal effects affect youth unemployment mainly by fluctuations in the inflow. The results are used for a policy …

The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which … the unemployment rate decreased a lot. A common feature of the successful countries is that they implemented a …

This paper examines whether unemployment of non-western immigrant workers in the Netherlands was disproportionally … affected by the Great Recession. We analyze unemployment data covering the period November 2007 to February 2013 finding that … the Great Recession affected unemployment rates of non-western immigrant workers in absolute terms more than unemployment …