additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment … lower amount of market work in areas of long-term high unemployment is offset by additional household production. In … contrast, in those areas where unemployment has risen cyclically reduced market work is made up almost entirely by additional …

frictions and unemployment insurance, when the latter is only imperfectly related to search effort. A balanced social insurance … volatility and persistence of vacancies and unemployment. …

least a 30% increase in monthly outflows out of unemployment into jobs. While aggregate ALMPs are positively associated with …

levels of unemployment. This substantial increase in wage levels relative to those in Western Germany is difficult to explain …

This paper evaluates complementarities of labour market institutions and the business cycle in the context of a … production. Furthermore, labour market institutions act in a complementary fashion in generating these …

France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States - which any theory of unemployment ought to explain. The … business cycles. Key results are: flows into and out of unemployment are countercyclical; these flows move tightly together …, over both the cycle and the long run; the bulk of exits from unemployment actually represent job findings rather than exits …

unemployment are large, countercyclical, and highly coincident in the four European countries examined in this paper. The most … surprising finding is that exits from unemployment exhibit a countercyclical pattern, similar to that in Japan and the United …

A matching function approach is applied to unemployment exit data from a panel of Eastern German labour office …, and can account for at least three-quarters of the variance of exits from unemployment. In contrast, the Eastern German …