This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which … unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain …-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are viewed as the outcome of the interplay between labor market shocks and prolonged …

This paper is concerned with the study of the labor market performance of immigrants. The unemployment rate is used as …, probit regressions on the unemployment probabilities are estimated for the pooled cross-section of 1991 and 1995, taking into … account nationality- and gender-specific differences. In a second stop, and based on the finding that unemployment rates …

, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation … wages, offered wages decline considerably with duration of unemployment. This is the main reason that ratios of reserva …­tion wages to offered wages increase rapidly with duration of unemploy­ment; on average, reservation wages begin to exceed …

Based on a Cox Proportional Hazard analysis of German unemployment spells, structural change of the production process … is identified as a major explanation for long-term unemployment. Other important covariates capture labor market … economy, or spend a longer time in unemployment searching for the few remaining jobs for which they possess adequate skills. …

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 …