After a decade of structural reforms, unemployment rates have tripled in Argentina. This paper is concerned with the … unemployment risk and develop a methodolgy to do that. Our estimates for Argentina show that, though the typical unemployment spell … measurement of unemployment risk and its distribution. We show the importance of considering re-incidence in the measurement of …

) entitlement leads to longer unemployment duration. Most of those studies have examined special programs that provide extra weeks … unemployment duration among UI claimants observed in these cases is due to the extended benefits or to the adverse labor market …Many empirical studies have confirmed the theoretical prediction that longer-term Unemployment Insurance (UI …

This study proposes a new approach to the analysis of non-employment and its duration in Germany, Italy and Spain using … administrative longitudinal databases. Non-employment includes the discouraged unemployed not entitled to draw unemployment benefits … estimate the magnitude and duration of non-employment, applying the survival methodology developed in recent years to deal with …

This study proposes a new approach to the analysis of non-employment and its duration in Germany, Italy and Spain using … administrative longitudinal databases. Non-employment includes the discouraged unemployed not entitled to draw unemployment benefits … estimate the magnitude and duration of non-employment, applying the survival methodology developed in recent years to deal with …

We study the macroeconomic effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit extensions in the United States at short and … when initial durations are shorter have substantial effects on the unemployment rate and the number of people receiving UI … duration elasticity to UI, implying small general equilibrium effects of UI extensions. …

performance, like unemployment or wage rates, show little departure from recent norms over the first few months of the crisis. The …

Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey non-response may then cause a … of the same workers. The latter provide information on durations of unemployment and personal characteristics of all … results based on only survey data: selectivity due to related unobserved determinants of durations of unemployment and non …

. Unemployment had reached its lowest levels for thirty years going in to the latest recession and has also remained relatively … subdued through the downturn, certainly compared to previous recessions. A combination of lower inflow rates into unemployment … seen before the recession. -- labour market ; recession ; unemployment ; wages …

been met by in–flows of cross–border workers and, to a lesser extent, immigration. Unemployment has remained low compared …