, unemployment, and economic inactivity between 1996 and 2011. In our analyses, we distinguish between fixedterm employment, solo …

the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence of unemployment. Technology has been … European unemployment. This paper seeks to provide a unified account of these major factor market developments. It models the … impact of technical change on relative wages and unemployment in a world in which one country has flexible and the other …

Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country fixed effects are added to panel … estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries over 439 months … unemployment rate 12 months in advance based on individuals' fears of unemployment, their perceptions of the economic situation and …

Econometric evidence suggests that the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (the NAIRU) has risen sharply in … unemployment …