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 …

available data for fourteen OECD economies. We thendevise a method to decompose changes in unemployment into contributions … accountedfor by changes in inflow and outflow rates for cases where unemployment deviates fromits flow steady state, as it does in … unemploymentvariation within countries. For Anglo-Saxon economies we find approximately a 15:85inflow/outflow split to unemployment …

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 …

More than a decade ago Oswald has formulated the thesis that homeownership increases unemployment. Empirical research … new job elsewhere. However, in general for European countries, residential mobility associated with unemployment spells … seekers and commuting costs. We show that decreasing absolute risk aversion implies that the exit rate from unemployment is …

. 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 …