Based on administrative registers from Norway, we examine how unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market … programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment and entrepreneurship. We find that the …

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 …

’ transition rates from unemployment to employment.Based on Norwegian register data from the 1989-2002 period, we show that this … indicator,in contrast to the aggregate rate of unemployment, correlates well with an expost-calculated GDP-based business cycle … unemployment rate, both at an aggregate and a disaggregate level, and hence improve policy makers ability to assess current labour …

(unemployment generosity, tax wedge, active labour market policies, employment protection legislation, product market regulation …

share of long-term unemployment. The rise in unemployment and its persistently high level have been blamed, both in Italy … of unemployment. An additional dimension of "segmentation" also characterises the Italian labour market, notably the 30 … percent's unemployment rate in the South (6 percent in the North) and the presence of a large share of the labour force …

active labor market policy, are only partly reported as unemployment. A review of the evidence on the effectiveness of labor … have alleviated social burdens from unemployment. Discussing what causes the high unemployment in the east, we claim that … effects of wage policy have been overrated. Differences in unemployment rates are also the result of more ample labor supply …

We use administrative data for Norway to estimate an incomplete-market life-cycle model of retired singles and couples …

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 …