, this transformation took place within just a few years. Until the mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment … was high. But since then labor demand has picked up and unemployment has dropped substantially. In contrast to the earlier …

while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six …

monthly employment and unemployment rates and the monthly transition intensities between the states of employment …, unemployment, and out-of-the-labor-force for the German labor market between January/February 1983 and November/ December 1994. The …

individual-level data for West Germany for the period 1983 to 1994, this paper explores both the demographic heterogeneity of … German unemployment in the long term, and the cyclical sensitivity of the unemployment experience across demographic groups …. The analysis moves beyond that of unemployment rates to a detailed investigation of transition rates from employment to …

unemployment at large firms are generally found to be more cyclical. However, this stylised fact disappears when the composition of …

role for the cyclicality of the unemployment outflow rate, although the contribution of the duration of unemployment is … significant. In contrast, composition effects dampen the cyclicality of the unemployment inflow rate considerably. We further … observe that the initially positive contribution of composition effects to a higher unemployment outflow rate turns negative …

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … with reference to the design of optimal unemployment insurance programs. …

In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …

. The Beveridge curve depicts the steady state of the model, whereby inflows into unemployment are equal to the outflows …