2.3 percentage points while it reduces unemployment by 0.8 percentage points, but has no statistically significant …

creation and job destruction for university graduates, compared to other groups of workers. We find that the unemployment rate …

youth unemployment in Europe? Economic theory predicts that in the absence of perfectly competitive labour markets, changes … in the relative size of age groups will cause changes in age-specific unemployment rates. In light of the expected … areas of low unemployment, the empirical analysis employs an instrumental variables estimator to identify the causal effect …

The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and nonparticipation. The …

unemployment from the time they left school up to age 30. We show that this experience is negatively correlated with the life … satisfaction that the individual reports at age 30, so that past unemployment scars. We also identify the childhood circumstances … and family background that predict this adult unemployment experience. Educational achievement and good behaviour at age …

unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …

of aggregate unemployment in postwar data. While this range may seem wide it is an indication that the importance of …

longer employment and unemployment spells, they must contend with lower earnings than tenants upon reemployment. They also …

youth unemployment in Europe? Economic theory predicts that in the absence of perfectly competitive labour markets, changes … in the relative size of age groups will cause changes in age-specific unemployment rates. In light of the expected … self-select into areas of low unemployment, the empirical analysis employs an instrumental variables estimator to identify …