immigrants arriving in Australia at the end of the 1990s. Moreover, approximately half of the fall in men's unemployment rates … also stems from increases in productive skills, though the substantial decline in women's unemployment rates are driven …

of the unemployment experience are taken into account: i) displacement risk, measured by the probability of moving from … employment into unemployment; ii) job-search effectiveness measured by the probability of moving from unemployment into … the effect is positive in the most recent periods. For native transition from employment to unemployment a complementary …

This paper analyzes transitions into and out of 3 different labor market states, social assistance, unemployment and … that immigrants are more likely to receive both social assistance and unemployment compensation than natives. Immigrants … unemployment insurance in a year, given participation in the previous year. The empirical results suggest that refugee immigrants …

nd generation immigrants. Immigrants and refugees are recorded on average with much higher unemployment and much lower …

major challenges for policy makers in Finland. The recession of the early 1990s showed that high unemployment can leave long …, greater flexibility in wage setting, ensuring earlier activation of unemployed and reforming unemployment and social benefits … to better support work incentives. Finland has an unusual combination of elevated unemployment replacement rates and late …