Many empirical studies have confirmed the theoretical prediction that longer-term Unemployment Insurance (UI …) entitlement leads to longer unemployment duration. Most of those studies have examined special programs that provide extra weeks … of unemployment benefits when unemployment rates in the region are higher. Hence, they must distinguish if the longer …

occupational distributions differ by gender; why geographic and job mobility predominate among the young; why unemployment is lower …

econometric explorations on microdata drawn from WHIP (Worker Histories Italian Panel). Workers' performance is compared at the … in this exploration. Our conclusion is that workers behave according to principles of rationality that seem distant from …

understand job search among the unemployed and how job search is shaped by unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market …

of the same workers. The latter provide information on durations of unemployment and personal characteristics of all …Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey non-response may then cause a … bias. We study this by using a data set that combines survey information of individual workers with administrative records …

Scholars have been examining the relationship between fertility and unemployment for more than a century. Most studies … find that fertility falls with unemployment in the short run, but it is not known whether these negative effects persist … period 1975 to 2010, we analyze both the short and long-run effects of unemployment on fertility. We follow fixed cohorts of …

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …