intervention was highly effective in reducing unemployment duration, but also spurred employment instability and withdrawals from …

intervention was highly effective in reducing unemployment duration, but also spurred employment instability and withdrawals from …

This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using … heterogeneity. We find that recipients, relative to non-recipients, face lower exit rates from unemployment, while an additional … month in unemployment increases their subsequent employment stability. This positive correlation between previous …

effects and lagged unemployment. We also use industrial firm's expectations of future employment, which are also predictive of …Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to … panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected …

This paper studies how cognitive and social skills in childhood are related to the duration of unemployment in … from unemployment to employment during an individual’s first unemployment spell. The analysis is based on British cohort …, parenting activities and school characteristics. -- Unemployment duration ; social skills ; noncognitive skills ; cognitive …

with a permanent contract, this study compares temporary work to the alternative of unemployment. Specifically, this paper …

This article investigates the impact of unemployment on the likelihood of having a first child. Using micro-data from …, West Germany, and the UK (1994-2001). The results highlight weak negative effects of unemployment on family formation among … men, which can be attributed to the inability to financially support a family. Among women, unemployment exerts a positive …

(JUVOS) for the analysis of unemployment duration. Variants of the JUVOS are used by the labour administration and the … research community as an important source for the analysis of unemployment. While previous work has mentioned the relevant data … competing implementations of unemployment duration in the data yield partly unstable empirical result pattern even in presence …

This paper studies how cognitive and social skills in childhood are related to the duration of unemployment in … from unemployment to employment during an individual's first unemployment spell. The analysis is based on British cohort …, parenting activities and school characteristics. -- unemployment duration ; social skills ; noncognitive skills ; cognitive …

Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases … with economic growth. However, the ranking model of Blanchard and Diamond (1994) makes the further prediction that negative … genuine duration dependence will be stronger the more depressed the labor market. In conflict with this prediction this study …