employment in Romania from 1993 to 1995. The data show not only a large drop in aggregate industry employment, but also a decline … other industrial sectors, in agriculture, and in services, as well as unemployment and non-participation in the labor force …

In many countries unemployed people are helped to become self-employed. Self-employment, however, does not necessarily … lead to success. Many leave self-employment after a short period and the economic outcome varies greatly. It is important … become self-employed. In the second part of the paper we study the economic outcome of self-employment in 2002 for Swedish …

indicate that the increasing share of services employment in total employment is helping to reduce unemployment among young …The paper starts by presenting some stylised facts on youth unemployment over the last two decades, both at the euro … area and the country level. It shows that despite declining considerably over the last few years, youth unemployment has …

correlations between risk aversion and labour market outcomes (full-time employment, temporary agency work, fixed-term contracts …

between skills and unemployment flows across 37 countries. Depending on the specifically assessed domain, I document that … skills have an unconditional correlation with the log-risk-ratio of exiting to entering unemployment of 0.65-0.68 across the …

probability of exit from employment and unemployment. … wage and employment changes from 1992 to 1996. We analyze how returns to schooling are changing over the transition period …

between skills and unemployment flows across 37 countries. Depending on the specifically assessed domain, I document that … skills have an unconditional correlation with the log-risk-ratio of exiting to entering unemployment of 0.62–0.70 across the …

between skills and unemployment flows across 37 countries. Depending on the specifically assessed domain, I document that … skills have an unconditional correlation with the log-risk-ratio of exiting to entering unemployment of 0.65-0.68 across the …

workers are unemployed. Both the reemployment hazard rate and reemployment earnings steadily fall with unemployment duration …