Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from … unemployment to temporary jobs and unobserved determinants of the transition rates. The data contain multiple spells in labour … unemployment and they substantially increase the fraction of unemployed workers who have regular work within a few years after …

-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 studies worker displacement in the United States and the Netherlands. We discuss the relevant institutions … the Netherlands are about the same, and vary similarly with tenure and gender. Also, we find some evidence that … displacement in either country. In the Netherlands, however, displaced workers may be more likely to move into alternative jobs …

of individuals who started collecting unemployment insurance in the Netherlands in 1992. We deal with various forms of …This paper finds that unemployment insurance sanctions substantially raise individual transition rates from … unemployment to employment. Sanctions are punitive benefits reductions that are supposed to make recipients comply with certain …

, and it allows workers to care about other job characteristics. The empirical analysis focuses on France, but we perform … separate analyses for the USA, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. We quantify the monopsony power due to search frictions and … we examine the policy effects of the minimum wage, unemployment benefits and search frictions …

In this paper we simultaneously analyze transitions from unemployment to employment and to nonparticipation. We … and unobserved heterogeneity terms. We use a unique population data set of French unemployment over the period 1988 …

total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the model using (micro) survey data and (macro) administrative data from France …We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from … unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the …

abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …

This paper examines the relation between individual unemployment durations and incidence on the one hand, and the time … of the inflow into unemployment to depend on calendar time. In both cases we distinguish between business cycle effects … and seasonal effects. The model is estimated with aggregate unemployment duration data, in which we allow for unobserved …

total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the model using (micro) survey data and (macro) administrative data from France …We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from … unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the …