We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from … unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the … total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the model using (micro) survey data and (macro) administrative data from France …

. Our estimation results show that a 1 percent point decrease in unemployment rate increases wage offers with 3 percent …

and norms, and less unemployment and social security problems for society. In the long run, co-ethnic employment might …

flows on wage formation as alternative to the traditional specification of wage equations where unemployment represents the …