unemployment rates. To this end, we develop a matching model à la Pissarides (2000) in which homeowners are assumed to be less …

higher levels of unemployment although home-owners tend to be unemployed less. The choice of housing tenure affects moving … costs and thereby regional mobility and unemployment. The paper analyzes the impact of symmetric and asymmetric shocks on … mobility and unemployment, and discusses effects of government intervention in the housing market. In addition, it is shown …

version of the basic file covers now the years 1975 to 1995 and contains for the first time information on Eastern Germany for … social insurance system. Supplementary information on establishments and on unemployment periods in which a claimant received …

their home. I analyze the relationship between such "house lock" and the elevated levels and persistence of unemployment … unemployment duration between homeowners and renters across geographic areas differentiated by the severity of the decline in home … method that enables the estimation of individual and aggregate covariate effects on completed unemployment durations in …

-off policy of firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongst lower educated workers and the relatively … strong sensitivity of their unemployment rate to the business cycle. We find that lay-off rates decrease with education but … with a higher level of education can not explain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educated …