Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …

efficient to intervene earlier in order to prevent long-term unemployment rather than to cure it, the climate of austerity in … of the unemployment spell. It comprises of a collective information session followed by a short one-on-one interview. In … in the first four months after the start of the unemployment spell, and the early intervention seems especially …

The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and nonparticipation. The …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …

abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …

crime victimization. In particular, local unemployment rate is found to be one of the most important factor explaining … unemployment rate in the reference neighborhood and in adjacent neighborhoods. The results support the idea that criminals are …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

This paper revisits the dynamics of unemployment rate for 29 OECD countries over the period of 1980-2013. Numerous … empirical studies of the dynamics of unemployment rate are carried out within a linear framework. However, unemployment rate can … time series exhibits nonlinear behaviour. Our empirical findings provide significant evidence in favour of unemployment …

, focussing on vacancy information obtained early in the unemployment spell. As in many other countries, the German activation … propensity score matching approach, we find that vacancy information increases the entry rate into unemployment predominantly by … through other channels. In case of continued unemployment, early vacancy information reduces the participation rate in ALMP …

a severe macroeconomic recession with mass unemployment. By the early 1990s, workers on fixed-term contracts accounted …