In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real … industrialized OECD countries. Our starting point is Lazear?s (1990) empirical dictum that severance payment requirements adversely …

and North Africa regions (SSA and MENA) aimed at reviewing the status of employment service provision, challenges and … opportunities for their development 4207 Given the enormous employment challenges in the Sub Saharan Africa and Middle East and … North Africa regions, particularly for youth and vulnerable groups, the study confirms the potential role employment …

The integration of active labour market policies within income support schemes - such as unemployment insurance and …

the local unemployment rate when more refugees arrive. The dynamic panel data estimates are robust to various sensitivity …

the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and …Measures of individual happiness, or well-being, can guide labor market policies. Individual unemployment, as well as … unemployment benefits can contribute to happiness—though when such policies prolong unemployment, the net effect on national …

The effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on unemployment and employment levels is still an unresolved … that EPL has no statistically significant effect on the unemployment level. Based on 42 studies, I find that EPL decreases … the employment level. Analysing study hetero- geneity reveals that the quality of the identification strategy matters for …

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … aggregate measures of unemployment responses to temporary and permanent shocks. These measures are temporal (depicting how long …

to employment, wages, prices and household well-being. The meta-analysis finds that most results on employment and wages … are non-significant. When significant, decreases in employment and wages are more likely to occur than increases with …

Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates … substantially underestimate the true levels of unemployment, due to misclassification errors in labor force status in Current …. During the period of 1996 to 2009, the corrected monthly unemployment rates are 1 to 4.6 percentage points (25% to 45 …