"Using German data this study applies an unobserved-components approach to disentangle the unemployment rate into a … trend component of unemployment, which triggers permanent reactions of the workers, is likely connected to a structural … effect. By splitting up the participation effect of changes in the unemployment rate our analysis differs profoundly from …

Institutions can affect individual behavior both via their efficiency impact and via their risk reducing mechanisms … simultaneously extant institutions. This paper presents a simple model of institutional choice in a labor market when there is a risk …

"In this paper we study the effect of small labor market entry cohorts on (un)employment in Western Germany. From a … theoretical point of view, decreasing cohort sizes may on the one hand reduce unemployment due to 'inverse cohort crowding' or on … the other hand increase unemployment if companies reduce jobs disproportionately. Consequently, the actual effect of …

"Over the last decade, both the availability of quantitative indicators on labor market institutions and of studies …: first, we provide an overview of the aggregate indicators of core labor market institutions such as employment protection …

"Over the last decade, both the availability of quantitative indicators on labor market institutions and of studies …: first, we provide an overview of the aggregate indicators of core labor market institutions such as employment protection …

components of matching efficiency and separation rate (shifting parameters) as well as unemployment and vacancies. Cointegration …

"The geographical distribution and persistence of regional/local unemployment rates in heterogeneous economies (such as … an interest in analysing the dynamic adjustment processes of unemployment and the average degree of dependence of the … current unemployment rates or gross domestic product from the ones observed in the past. In this paper, we present a new …

"The geographical distribution and persistence of regional/local unemployment rates in heterogeneous economies (such as … an interest in analysing the dynamic adjustment processes of unemployment and the average degree of dependence of the … current unemployment rates or gross domestic product from the ones observed in the past. In this paper, we present a new …