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 …

immigration on unemployment. The transitory restrictions for worker migration after the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 exemplify … alongside trade on unemployment taking into account the substitutability of worker and goods flows. We use data from 24 OECD … persistence of unemployment. We find a significant negative effect of immigration on unemployment on average. …

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 …

characteristics of the unemployed are the most important determinants of reservation wages. In contrast neither unemployment duration … nor different kinds of unemployment benefits influence reservation wages. Hence the findings corroborate the hypothesis …

effect of coordination on unemployment. …

facilitates the analysis of skill-specific institutional changes. A government can influence wages and unemployment of the low …

This paper presents a synoptic interpretation of structural unemployment in Europe. The paper consists of three parts …. Part 1 summarises some major stilysed facts of the record and the state of unemployment in Europe. In part 2, these facts … are taken as the basis for a theoretical interpretation of the genesis and persistence of European unemployment. Part 3 …