Using information contained in a nationally representative, longitudinal survey of Russian citizens, this research analyzes the determinants of unemployment duration during the early stages of economic transition. A competing-risks, discrete-time waiting model, augmented to incorporate...

The impact of the administration of unemployment benefits on time spent unemployed is a neglected issue in discussion of incentive effects in Central and Eastern Europe. We use Labour Force Survey data, ad-ministrative registers and inspection of benefit office practices to show that there is...

We evaluate a wage subsidy program that is targeted at long-term unemployed workers in Germany. We use an alternative identification procedure compared to empirical studies con­ducted so far. Exploiting the particular program regulations and large administrative data we estimate the impact of...

This paper is making an attempt to examine the long-run relationship between the key labor market parameters employment, aggregate output, real product wages and laboraugmenting technical progress for a sample of 21 OECD countries covering the period from 1970 to 2000. We apply a new panel error...

This study examines policies that can successfully address long-term unemployment. It focuses on Denmark and Sweden, where, despite sizeable job losses during the crisis, labour market indicators are at present better than in any other EU country. By looking at the interaction between labour...

Long-term unemployment reached unprecedented levels in Spain in the wake of the Great Recession and it still affects around 57% of the unemployed. We document the sources that contributed to the rise in long-term unemployment and analyze its persistence using state-of-the-art duration models. We...

Langzeitarbeitslose haben in den letzten Jahren nicht gleichermaßen von der positiven Arbeitsmarktentwicklung profitieren können wie Nichtlangzeitarbeitslose. Auch wenn der Anteil von Langzeitarbeitslosen an allen Arbeitslosen etwa gleich geblieben ist, gehen sie seltener als...

Am 26. Januar 2006 stellte das ifo Institut im Rahmen einer Bundespressekonferenz die aktualisierte Version des ifo Kombilohn-Modells "Aktivierende Sozialhilfe" vor, das eine Alternative zum heutigen Lohnersatzmodell bietet. Das ifo-Modell eröffnet bei verringerten fiskalischen Kosten...

Nachdem das ifo Institut im Mai des Jahres 2002 seine Studie zur Aktivierenden Sozialhilfe vorgestellt hatte, wurde in Deutschland eine Diskussion zu den Möglichkeiten einer aktivierenden Sozialpolitik zum Zwecke der Entwicklung des Niedriglohnsektors geführt. Am Beginn der Diskussion standen...