on the job finding rate but we find mixed effects in terms of post-unemployment wages. … Jahre verstärkt hat. Wir finden aber auch, dass wenn neue Arbeit gefunden wird, technologischer Fortschritt zu höheren … Löhnen und stabileren Arbeitsverhältnissen führen kann. Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen während der Arbeitslosigkeit sind im …

This paper studies the relationship between the change in the unemployment rate and output growth using an approach … based on labor market flows. The framework shows why the Okun coefficient may be constant/time-varying and/or symmetric …/asymmetric and that the outcome lies with the behavior of the labor flows in response to growth. The encompassing framework nests the …

interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

Recent evaluations of active labor market policies are not very optimistic about their effectiveness to bring … job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells …

fired. Therefore a country with a high or an increasing unemployment rate has a low (reported) workplace accident rate. The … inversely related to both the level of unemployment and the change in unemployment. Furthermore, fatal accident rated do not …

Our paper revisits Okun's relationship between observed unemployment rates and output gaps. We include in the … unemployment rate) over time. The Okun coefficient is not only different for young, prime-age and older workers, it decreases with … reducing the overall unemployment rate, it will also have the distributional effect of lowering youth unemployment. …

The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which … the unemployment rate decreased a lot. A common feature of the successful countries is that they implemented a …