focus is to explore how the conditions in the pre-displacement firm affect the duration of unemployment. The empirical … spent in unemployment. The heterogeneity of the signalling effect across various employee subgroups in the economy is also … and in particular by the conditions in the firms in which they were previously employed. -- unemployment duration …

focus is to explore how the conditions in the pre-displacement firm affect the duration of unemployment. The empirical … spent in unemployment. The heterogeneity of the signalling effect across various employee subgroups in the economy is also …

This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss … labor market allow making a distinction between the effect of a warning that a person is not complying with eligibility … positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment. Moreover, the stricter the sanction policy the shorter is the duration of …

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 … program was an endogenous policy response to a crisis affecting individuals with severe labor market problems. The main …

In this paper we investigate whether unemployment traps exist and are significant in the transition from unemployment … periods of unemployment in the past is particularly important: long-term unemployed people have difficulties in re …-integrating the labour market and they obtain low salaries when they succeed in finding employment. Long unemployment spells are …