With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at
the heart of the policy debate. In this paper, we review the recent theoretical and empirical …

This article studies the role of employer behavior in generating “negative duration
dependence”—the adverse effect of a longer unemployment spell—by sending fictitious …

'Employability'plays a crucial role in informing labour market policy in the UK, the EU and
beyond. The concept of employability has been deployed to describe the objectives of the …

This paper accounts for the observed increase in unemployment duration relative to the
unemployment rate in the US over the past thirty years, typified by the record low level of …

The authors use data from a résumé audit to estimate the impact of unemployment and
underemployment on the employment prospects of recent college graduates. They find no …

Many previous articles have studied the contribution of inflows and outflows to the cyclical
variation in unemployment, but ignored the critical role of unobserved heterogeneity across …

We ask how employers contribute to unemployment scarring in the recruitment process in
the German-speaking part of Switzerland. By drawing on recruitment theories, we aim to …

This paper examines the relation between individual unemployment durations and
incidence (inflow size) on the one hand and the time-varying macroeconomic conditions in …

The long and eventually strong expansion of the 1990s elicited a spate of articles referring to
a rising tide and its salutary effect on all boats. 1 The analogy of the rising tide says that as …

Various reasons have been put forward to explain the stylized fact that the wages of job
starters are more procyclical than the wages of workers who don't change jobs. I explore the …