reacts to regional employment shocks in a variety of cases. Shock responses are channelled via changes in unemployment …' relative position persists: those with the highest unemployment rates in 1996 were also in the worse position in 2012. To …, unemployment and spatial mobility become the central ones in recession. We also provide evidence of real wage rigidities in both …

incumbent firms. Our results indicate that individuals’ employment stability was higher in incumbent than in newly founded firms … while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six …

This paper provides a preliminary analysis of the employment and occupational assimilation of recent immigrant waves to … Earnings Structure Survey, we find evidence of immigrant employment and occupational assimilation significantly varying by … gender, origin and educational attainment. For instance, EU15 immigrants do not display an employment or occupational gap …

’ youth labour force was unemployed compared to 21.4 percent in EU-27 in 2011. Germany, with a youth unemployment rate of 8 … unemployment rate of adults aged 45 to 54; in Germany, this figure is only 1.7. Further peculiarities come up if unemployment is …By conventional statistics, youth unemployment seems to be quite moderate in Korea: ‘only’ 9.6 percent of the ‘active …

collapse and rising unemployment, this paper stresses that the impact of the crisis is rather diverse, reflecting differences …

employment into unemployment; ii) job-search effectiveness measured by the probability of moving from unemployment into … the effect is positive in the most recent periods. For native transition from employment to unemployment a complementary … result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects …

workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the …

than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in …

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as ‘ ‘ chain reactions’’ of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of … interacting lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labor market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we …