The literature on unemployment has mostly focused on labor market issues while the impact of capital formation is …

negative duration dependence of exit rates from unemployment. Our model has a number of novel testable implications. For …

illustrate the potential of such methodology using Italian labour market data. First, we decompose the unemployment rate …

The world faces an unemployment crisis. Across the globe, an estimated 210 million people are unemployed, an increase … extent to which this increase is cyclical or structural. But regardless of the source, unemployment exerts a heavy human toll …

The literature on unemployment has mostly focused on labor market issues while the impact of capital formation is …

advantage of individual-level longitudinal data to observe the impacts of minimum wage changes on unemployment and labor force … determines unemployment and labor force participation. Specifically, the empirical strategy controls any fixed individual … increase in unemployment immediately following a minimum wage increase. In addition, it does not appear that employers are …

characteristics of the unemployed are the most important determinants of reservation wages. In contrast neither unemployment duration … nor different kinds of unemployment benefits influence reservation wages. Hence the findings corroborate the hypothesis …

, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation … wages, offered wages decline considerably with duration of unemployment. This is the main reason that ratios of reservation … wages to offered wages increase rapidly with duration of unemployment; on average, reservation wages begin to exceed offered …

the empirical literature estimating the matching function, commonly used to map unemployment and vacancies into hires …