We analyse women's weekly probabilities of leaving unemployment in the Czech and Slovak Republics (CR and SR) in order … to investigate three questions: 1) Why are unemployment rates much lower in the CR than the SR?; 2) Does the unemployment … compensation scheme (UCS) substantially lengthen unemploment spells?; and 3) Why are women's unemployment rates higher than men …

We analyze women's weekly probabilities of leaving unemployment in the Czech and Slovak Republics (CR and SR) in order … to investigate three questions: 1) Why are unemployment rates much lower in the CR than the SR? 2) Does the unemployment … compensation scheme (UCS) substantially lengthen unemployment spells? 3) Why are women's unemployment rates higher than men's? We …

We investigate the remarkably short unemployment spells in the Czech Republic compared to Slovakia and other Central … and East European economies. We estimate hazard functions and find that 40 to 50 percent of the difference in unemployment … unemployment compensation system has a moderately negative effect on the exit rate from unemployment. Policy makers hence have …

This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, high … unemployment rates may lead to start-up activity of self-employed individuals (the "refugee" effect). On the other hand, higher … rates of self-employment may indicate increased entrepreneurial activity reducing unemployment in subsequent periods (the …

Unemployment has been an important issue in Colombia because of the high rates observed since the 1980's, yet few … disparities and long-term relations between the unemployment rates of the seven largest cities in Colombia. First, a dispersion … unemployment rates disparities. When the economy slows down (grows) the disparities tend to decrease (increase). The cointegration …

augment the equilibrium unemployment model as developed by Pissarides and Mortensen with temporary work agencies in order to …

This report uses estimates from the Congressional Budget Office to project an unemployment scenario for the Pandemic … Recession. We go on to use detailed unemployment and homeless data from the 2008 Great Recession to estimate the linkage between … unemployment and homelessness and forecast the amount and type of pandemic-driven homelessness in Los Angeles, California and the …

risk of unemployment in the 2020 Covid recession so that they and their employers can be located and provided with timely … unemployment from the Census Bureau, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and the U.S. Department of Labor …

Recent evidence from large-scale field experiments has shown that employers use job candidates' unemployment duration … unemployment durations. In addition, these participants rate the job candidates on statements central to four theoretical … mechanisms often related to the scarring effect of unemployment: general signalling theory, (perceived) skill loss, queuing …