Many empirical studies have confirmed the theoretical prediction that longer-term Unemployment Insurance (UI …) entitlement leads to longer unemployment duration. Most of those studies have examined special programs that provide extra weeks … of unemployment benefits when unemployment rates in the region are higher. Hence, they must distinguish if the longer …

models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job creations and destructions, unemployment and wage … optimal level of unemployment benefits, the funding of unemployment insurance and the impact of employment protection …

performance, we apply a gross flow analysis based on EU-SILC longitudinal data. While in Spain increases in youth unemployment … uniformly, also to the jobfinding rates. Survival functions estimates point to prolonged unemployment duration and increasing … long term unemployment, while both these tendencies apply relatively more to the young unemployed. Proportional hazard …

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …