This paper proposes a protocol for considering the social cost of unemployment by taking into account three different … aspects: incidence, severity and hysteresis. Incidence refers to the conventional unemployment rate; severity takes in both … unemployment duration and the associated income loss; and hysteresis refers to the probability of remaining unemployed. The social …

This paper proposes a protocol for considering the social cost of unemployment by taking into account three different … aspects: incidence, severity and hysteresis. Incidence refers to the conventional unemployment rate; severity takes in both … unemployment duration and the associated income loss; and hysteresis refers to the probability of remaining unemployed. The social …

which differences in mobility explain differences in the probability of exiting unemployment between the two countries …

Unemployment insurance is usually found to show negative effects in the transition from unemployment to a new job …. However, the extent to which workers' careers might improve or deteriorate as a result of the unemployment insurance system is …

The present research provides evidence on the determinants driving the differences in the unemployment …

with different equilibria descriptive of the labor markets in Spain and France, where the unemployment rates went from the … unemployment rate in Spain has jumped to much higher levels while switching between equilibria or, what is the same, because of …

qualification. We analyze which personal and economic characteristics determine this willingness and how it changes as unemployment … spells lengthen. Moreover, we also study the influence of this willingness on unemployment duration. The main results are: (i …) Young workers, those less educated and those living in regions with high unemployment show a more positive attitude towards …

unemployment durations and the stability of jobs found after unemployment before and during the recent crisis. We find particularly … strong effects of the crisis on the hazards in the beginning of the unemployment spell. The groups hit hardest by the crisis … to the more pro-cyclical nature of men's jobs. Decompositions show that the increase in average unemployment duration and …