In this paper we analyze the sources of German unemployment within a structural vector error correction model (SVECM …, productivity and unemployment which is interpreted as a wage setting relation. From a Subset VECM we identify meaningful structural … shocks and assess their importance for unemployment by impulse response analysis and forecast error variance decompositions …

implies that a firms separations outflow is the sum of an exogenous flow to unemployment and a job-to-job flow that decreases …

same employer. For some temporary employment leads to unemployment, particularly those with low human capital. Positioning …-tier labour market for temporary employment in Germany. -- mobility ; unemployment ; Fixed-term contracts ; dynamic wages …

This paper examines the relationship between unemployment, real oil price and real interest rates in Canada. Instead of …/cointegration techniques which allow for the possibility that unemployment is highly persistent. In line with other studies, we find that all … equilibrium model with highly persistent shocks might be adequate to account for the observed behaviour of unemployment …