Survey (LFS) to construct worker transition rates across employment, unemployment, and inactivity. Our approach involves … transition rates: (a) from employment to unemployment have fallen over time (b) from unemployment to employment were unusually … of job search from inactivity compared to unemployment. This factor provides enough structure to prevent arbitrary …

document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to …

, unemployment and nonparticipation for each country. We develop a decomposition measuring the contribution of these transition …-data for 31 European countries, and estimate the life-cycle profiles of transition probabilities across employment …

reverse transition probability. We compare the dynamics of unemployment and involuntary part-time employment to argue that … jump in the transition probability from other employment states to involuntary part-time employment, and a drop in the … they reflect the operation of distinct labor-adjustment channels. While unemployment dynamics are driven by movements in …

Although the size of the labor force is nearly acyclical, worker flows between employment and unemployment on the one … paper lays out a job-search model to uncover the determinants of worker flows between employment, unemployment and … probability to move from inactivity into unemployment. Second, high-productivity workers who are less likely to drop from the …

restricted-access panel micro-data from the Canadian Labour Force Survey to construct transition probabilities into and out of …

: workers typically hold a second job for a short period of time, which imparts a large bias in the estimates of transition …