This field experiment explores whether single and married female job candidates' un/employment histories differentially …' discrimination against, and/or preference for, candidates who are un/employed vary with the duration of unemployment spells. Resumes …. Candidates' experiences of unemployment and declaration of marital status are carefully controlled. Over 7000 applications are …

Youth unemployment, and unemployment, in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) countries are among the highest in the … market outcomes and causes vary. The standard way of thinking about youth unemployment - i.e. demand for labor driven by … play a more important role, as the case study of Morocco illustrates. The prospects for reducing youth unemployment over …

. The survival analysis indicates that the flows from/to employment to/from unemployment in Latvia are determined by the …

Despite their importance for the success of firms, the job prospects of the unemployed and overall unemployment, the … fall rather than rise when the labour market tightens. This suggests that the negative signal of unemployment is stronger …

unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high … unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies. Instead, there are few vacancies when unemployment is high because there is a low … cyclical behaviour of stocks and flows in the labour market also without search frictions. In periods of high unemployment …