risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …

risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …

persons. However, stigma related to unemployment or inactivity can hinder their hiring chances when applying for a job. This …-term unemployment of up to six months positively affects hiring prospects, while the adverse effects of unemployment scarring become … negative impact of longer spells. The latter negative signal is more pronounced when unemployment rates are low. …

This paper revisits the dynamics of unemployment rate for 29 OECD countries over the period of 1980-2013. Numerous … empirical studies of the dynamics of unemployment rate are carried out within a linear framework. However, unemployment rate can … time series exhibits nonlinear behaviour. Our empirical findings provide significant evidence in favour of unemployment …

significantly contribute to the rise in unemployment during the Great Recession. I build a general equilibrium model that uses … significantly contribute to aggregate unemployment fluctuations. …

Many developing countries exhibit a puzzling pattern given their scarce human capital: unemployment rates increase with … education. We develop and estimate a model where educated unemployment arises from heterogeneous workers participating in a … explain around two-thirds of educated unemployment in urban Burkina Faso and one-quarter in Senegal. We then simulate three …

historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …

historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …