an on-the-job search is developed, i.e. job seekers who vary in unemployment duration, skills levels and preferences … job placement agencies’ services, as well as minimum wage and unemployment benefits, considerably interact with and … influence unemployment and long-term unemployment ratios, wage levels, duration of periods of unemployment, skills demand, and …

unemployment duration and the quality of reemployment. …

longer employment and unemployment spells, they must contend with lower earnings than tenants upon reemployment. They also …

-term unemployment rates, leading to the need to reform labour market institutions and make them more flexible. Flexible labour markets … employment and unemployment) but also to reduce the negative impacts on labour market of structural shocks. If we focus on the …, the countries with the best results in terms of unemployment and employment would have been those that had a more flexible …

document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to …

, unemployment rate and market tightness as well as on the overall economic growth. We aim at determining whether a portion of … unemployment can be explained by either the increased public hiring or shrinking of the number of public employees in the last … decade. As the results suggest, in recessionary times the expansion of the public sector managed to keep the unemployment …

, this transformation took place within just a few years. Until the mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment … was high. But since then labor demand has picked up and unemployment has dropped substantially. In contrast to the earlier …

2007 that include a longitudinal component. It first shows that sustained economic growth will reduce youth unemployment … reduce youth unemployment. Third, the analysis of labor market characteristics reveals that young graduates experience long … unemployment as they cue for high-skill jobs. Moreover, the public sector remains the main provider of employment opportunities for …

Unemployment rates in the United States have been slow to fall over the last couple of years despite a modest growth in … unemployment? Bell and Blanchflower suggest that one factor is the extent to which workers already employed prefer to work more …