, coverage of social security does not provide enough support in coping with unemployment shocks. Instead, we find that mothers …

Discouraged workers are those who have given up search due to (perceived) low chances of obtaining work. In this paper … acceptable job offer. This model is based on standard search theory and it is consistent with the notion of aggregate rationality …: immigrants from non-Western countries and Norwegian-born. The empirical results show that estimated search cost (disutility) per …

This research explores the long-term equilibrium relationship between unemployment and labour force participation rates … focused on the study of time series is used to validate the unemployment invariance hypothesis and explore added and … the unemployment invariance hypothesis in several countries appears to reflect some rigidities that prevent the …

In this paper we study the separate effects of unemployment and job displace- ment on fertility in a sample of white … collar women in Austria. Using an instru- mental variables approach we show that unemployment incidence as such has no … so irrespective of the incidence or the duration of the associated unemployment spell. …

signiffcantly below those of a control group, even after six years. -- fertility ; unemployment ; plant closings ; human capital …