We provide a set of comparable estimates for the rates of inflow to and outflow from unemployment using publicly … available data for fourteen OECD economies. We then devise a method to decompose changes in unemployment into contributions … accounted for by changes in inflow and outflow rates for cases where unemployment deviates from its flow steady state, as it …

This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based … on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is … broken down into the risk of entering unemployment and the risk, once unemployed, of not getting reemployed. The paper …

pertaining to regional unemployment in Germany. The available data set comprises information about the share of unemployed …

On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to … education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education … level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show that an increase in regional unemployment by 1% decreases the returns …

noncyclical. Most of this composition effect works through the part-time employment margin. Remarkably, the unemployment margin …

. In the light of high and persistent differences in unemployment and wage rates between the North and South of Italy and … unemployment and individual wages. Using micro data on hourly wages properly matched to local unemployment rates, we specify and … both countries, the reaction of wages to local unemployment varies significantly along the wage distribution, being more …