We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994 …. The effects on the duration of unemployment of important socio-economic and demographic characteristics are explored … besides the impacts of the unemployment benefit system and training schemes. Finally, we investigate whether prior …

A major labour market challenge following the Great Recession is to avoid an increase in long-term unemployment and … thus the structural unemployment rate. Active labour market policies may play an important role in this respect. We … also characterised by high flows into and out of employment, implying that most unemployment spells are rather short and …

in Poland. The analysis is based on retrospective monthly calendar information on the labour force state and active …: intervention works prolong unemployment for both genders as do public works for men. The number of observations on women in public …

Long-term unemployment reached unprecedented levels in Spain in the wake of the Great Recession and it still affects … around 57% of the unemployed. We document the sources that contributed to the rise in long-term unemployment and analyze its … characteristics such as mature age, lack of experience, and entitlement to unemployment benefits are key to understand the cross …

Since the end of the Great Recession in mid-2009, the unemployment rate has recovered slowly, falling by only one … weakness has led to the highest level of long-term unemployment in the U.S. in the postwar period, and a blurring of the … distinction between unemployment and nonparticipation. We show that flows from nonparticipation to unemployment are important for …

relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …