unemployment, inflation, terrorism assassinations, turnout and other factors. The statistical model used, a fractional probit … National Partial Effects (NPE), i.e. the effect on national vote shares of changes in unemployment, inflation and terrorism are …

According to a widespread view, Germany's unemployment crisis is caused by rigid labour markets, low profitability and … Germany's unemployment rate since 1989, first because no distinction is drawn between the situation in the Eastern part of … negotiations. The unification shock to the East added at least 2.5 percentage points to Germany's overall unemployment rate, as …

country has experienced since the Great Depression. The unemployment rate reached as high as 10.1 percent in October 2009 … those in the past by examining worker flows into and out of unemployment taking into account changes in the demographic … results indicate that the increase in the unemployment rate is driven to a larger extent by the lack of hiring (low outflows …

This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based … on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is … broken down into the risk of entering unemployment and the risk, once unemployed, of not getting reemployed. The paper …

country has experienced since the Great Depression. In this paper we decompose the changes in the unemployment rate by … examining worker ows into and out of unemployment during the last four recessions in the United States with a special focus on … contributions to the aggregate unemployment rate changes, we attempt to evaluate the relative importance of cyclical and structural …

On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to … education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education … level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show that an increase in regional unemployment by 1% decreases the returns …