incentives as it reduces the attractiveness of remaining a low-educated worker. However, unemployment also increases …

sector, high youth unemployment, weak private sectors, rapidly growing but highly distorted educational attainment, and low …

impact of the housing cycle on young Americans' choices related to education and employment. We find that in MSAs which … education and join the workforce, lowering skill formation. During the bust years, the young, especially those without higher … education, were more likely to be unemployed in areas which experienced higher declines in house prices. …

Unemployment swings have distributional consequences if some groups are hit harder than others. We examine if the … sensitivity to local unemployment rates varies by characteristics such as health, cognitive ability and non-cognitive ability … unemployment rate are associated with larger variations for those with poor health or with a low non-cognitive ability. This …

health and education government spending on income inequality in the European Union over the 2002-2015 period. In this …

and unemployment showed little sensitivity. Workers have paid the price for this rather stable employment situation in the …

have been the massive improvement in the education of the labor force (especially of women), the resilience of employment …

educational type with high consumption value and low effort costs. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in …

matching model with two education levels in which workers decide ex-ante on their skill formation, it is shown that employment … the rent created by skill formation. Furthermore, it will be shown that high-skilled workers face shorter unemployment …