The current meta-analytic review examined the effectiveness of job search interventions in
facilitating job search success (ie, obtaining employment). Major theoretical perspectives on …

This article positions itself among the very rare microeconomic analyses on the
consequences of civil war. Up to now, most analyses on this topic are based on household …

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 uses job seekers' elicited beliefs about job finding to disentangle the sources of
the decline in job-finding rates by duration of unemployment. We document that beliefs have …

The stigma associated with long-term unemployment spells could create large inefficiencies
in labor markets. While the existing literature points toward large stigma effects, it has proven …

We estimate that unemployment insurance (UI) extensions reduce reemployment wages
using sharp age discontinuities in UI eligibility in Germany. We show this effect combines …

From the perspective of a wide range of labor market outcomes, the recession that began in
2007 represents the deepest downturn in the postwar era. Early on, the nature of labor …

Many countries have applied lockdown that helped suppress COVID-19, but with
devastating economic consequences. Here we propose exit strategies from lockdown that …

Most of the recent literature on the effects of labor market institutions on wages and
employment draws on reforms used as natural experiments. This is a significant …