flexible multi-state Mixed Proportional Hazard specifications for transition rates between employment, unemployment, and …' transition rates from unemployment to employment increase. Longer periods of non-employment generally decrease future transition … welfare/non-participation. Our main finding is that after longer periods of employment with high income, individuals …

matching framework. The method uses readily available data on distributions of unemployment and job durations and wages. We … estimate an index of search frictions, the magnitude of structural and frictional unemployment, and the average monopsony power … of firms, and we examine the effect of the minimum wage, unemployment benefits and search frictions on monopsony power …

Amongst the active labor market policy programs for the unemployed in Sweden, the vocational employment training … program is the most ambitious and expensive. We analyze its effect on the individual transition rate from unemployment to … employment using a unique set of administrative data and a novel empirical approach that exploits variation in the timing of …

Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey non-response may then cause a … of the same workers. The latter provide information on durations of unemployment and personal characteristics of all … results based on only survey data: selectivity due to related unobserved determinants of durations of unemployment and non …

Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey nonresponse may then cause a bias … of the same workers. The latter provide information on unemployment durations and personal characteristics of all survey … based on only survey data: (1) selectivity due to related unobserved determinants of unemployment durations and non …

approach that exploits regional variation in unemployment and compares babies born to the same parents so as to deal with …-percentage-point increase in the unemployment rate during pregnancy reduces the probability of having a birth weight less than 1,500 grams or of … cannot be attributed to the parents' own employment status. The results suggest pathways through stress and air pollution …

, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job …Public Employment Service (PES) agencies and caseworkers (CW) often have substantial leeway in the design and … (carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …

) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations, employment, and postunemployment …Public Employment Service (PES) agencies and caseworkers (CW) often have substantial leeway in the design and … intensive carrots and sticks regimes each reduce unemployment durations, but with carrots regimes this raises earnings whereas …

certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the … earnings in subsequent employment. Any evaluation needs to take into account that some of those who are not trained at a … certain time in unemployment will leave unemployment before training while others will be trained later. We are interested in …

covariates are key confounders to be included in selection models. The joint inclusion of specific short-term employment history … indicators (notably, the share of time spent in employment), together with baseline socio-economic characteristics, regional and … approach provides accurate effect estimates, especially if time-varying variation in the unemployment rate of the local labor …