There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalitiesin the Ile … municipality on an exhaustive datasetof all unemployment spells starting in the first semester of 1996... …

In mid-2008, high employment and low unemployment rates characterised the Estonian labour marketin comparison with the …, ethnic groups, and workers with different skilllevels. As Estonia entered recession in 2008, the unemployment rate almost …

the lifecycle affects aggregate labor market activity, and in particular, unemployment. While much work has been done on … environment in which unemployment arises as a natural possibility and both young and old workers find themselves contemporaneously …

age at which the individualstarts receiving disability benefits, and the increase in the local unemployment rate …

contemporary unemployment affect a young worker’s probability ofbeing invited to a job interview. In contrast to studies using … forunobserved heterogeneity. We find no evidence that recruiting employers use informationabout past unemployment to sort workers … pastunemployment as a sorting criterion suggests that the scarring effects of unemployment maynot be as severe as has been indicated by …