The beginning of the employment career is often associated with phases of unemployment. We argue that unemployment has … UK and Germany. While search and matching models argue that an unemployment phase might be used for an active job search … and rigid labour market in Germany creates a stigma attached to unemployment and therefore might have negative …

transition out of unemployment. We show that rationing of the demand for training increases theunemployment duration of non …

This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany …

Sickness absence tends to be negatively correlated with unemployment. This may suggest disciplining effects of … unemployment but may also reflect changes in the composition of the labour force. A panel of Norwegian register data for the years … probability of absence and the number of days on sick leave conditional on absence. The county unemployment rate is found to …

Using administrative panel data from Norway, we investigate the development of household labor income, financial wealth … precautionary saving and a shift toward safer assets in the years leading up to unemployment, and depletion of savings during … unemployment. This suggests that at least some households can foresee and prepare for upcoming unemployment, which indicates that …

We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a … constraints. Finding liquidity constraints in Norway, despite its equitable wealth distribution and generous welfare state, means …

We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a …. Finding liquidity constraints in Norway, despite its equitable wealth distribution and generous welfare state, means they are …

This paper examines the intergenerational correlation in unemployment in Norway and, by use of the sibling … unemployment. Confirming existing evidence, I find a substantial intergenerational correlation in unemployment. Approximately half … measures of parental unemployment. …

rates of unemployment during their whole prime-age work career. Building on a unique combination of micro- and macro data … from Norway, we show that these effects are robust with respect to model-specifications and conditioning variables, and …