increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …

This paper is the first to estimate the effects of minimum wages on the unemployment of refugee immigrants. The … collectively agreed minimum wages raise both the incidence of unemployment and days in unemployment considerably for male refugees … in Sweden; different estimation methods and models yield robust elasticities in the 1.8-2.0 range. The effects for young …

appears that the activation program is very effective. The median unemployment duration of the control group is 14 weeks …

appears that the activation program is very effective. The median unemployment duration of the control group is 14 weeks …

In many European countries, labor markets are characterized by high regional disparities in terms of unemployment rates …

The social costs of unemployment, in terms of unemployment's impact on European citizens' life satisfaction, relate … strongly to unemployment duration. At any level of general joblessness, reducing long-term unemployment is more important than … reducing the number of people unemployed at any point in time. -- unemployment ; unemployment duration ; life satisfaction …