We investigate whether a cut in unemployment benefit payout periods affected older workers' labor market transitions … unemployed declined after the reform. These patterns suggest that the reform of unemployment benefits may be one of the reasons …

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German … and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers' unemployment is causal for offsprings' employment … intergenerational unemployment transmission. This outcome is robust to alternative data structures and to tests at the intensive and …

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German … and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers' unemployment is causal for offsprings' employment … intergenerational unemployment transmission. This outcome is robust to alternative data structures and to tests at the intensive and …

unemployment on child labor market and education outcomes. We first describe correlation patterns and then use sibling fixed … effects and the Gottschalk (1996) method to identify the causal effects of paternal unemployment. We find different patterns … for sons and daughters. Paternal unemployment does not seem to causally affect the outcomes of sons. In contrast, it …

payroll taxes, in particular social insurance contributions, are the culprit behind the growing unemployment problem. Using …

after the reform: transitions from welfare to employment became more likely and persistence in welfare and inactivity …

market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …