Based on administrative data from the federal employment services in Germany, this paper applies statistical matching … employment and unemployment chances of unemployed job seekers. If anything, temporary help work seems to provide an access … techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function to regular employment of temporary help work for unemployed job seekers. Our …

the labor force participation of younger persons in twelve countries. We found no evidence that increasing the employment … of older persons will reduce the employment opportunities of youth and no evidence that increasing the employment of … older persons will increase the unemployment of youth …

countries has decreased substantially while the negative effect of a country's own employment growth (or labor force growth) on …

(TFP) that are common across countries. We find that automation displaces employment and reduces labor's share of value …-added in the industries in which it originates (a direct effect). In the case of employment, these own-industry losses are … employment across industries and the aggregate fall in the labor share over the last three decades. It does not, however, explain …

find that policy uncertainty raises stock price volatility and reduces investment and employment in policy … foreshadow declines in investment, output, and employment in the United States and, in a panel VAR setting, for 12 major …

social security incentives on retirement behavior in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands …

This paper asks how well Okun's Law fits short-run unemployment movements in the United States since 1948 and in twenty … the unemployment rate - varies substantially across countries. This variation is partly explained by idiosyncratic … features of national labor markets, but it is not related to differences in employment protection legislation …

This paper develops a framework for analyzing unemployment in terms of …distribution of the inflow Into unemployment are the primary determinant of …drive the recession. In contrast to normal unemployment, cyclical unemployment …

states of employment, unemployment, and non-participation. The determinants of actual household transitions are then … investigated using continuous employment histories for a sample of low-income families. Simulations using the estimated transition … functions show that increased unemployment among married men has a sizeable short-run effect on both participation and …