to workers. In the short run, union membership dynamics are mainly driven by changes in unemployment. In turn, changes in …

overly long unemployment durations. We examine the influence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …

possible between different segments of the labour market, we concentrate on unemployment experience and wage growth for a panel …

able to generate fragile equilibria. For instance, in this literature the natural unemployment rate is allowed to shift … over time depending on past unemployment. Actually, many European unemployment series seem to exhibit a unit root or … persistence. This view is questioned in the paper using German data on unemployment. A new class of time-series models, the …

Previous estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime commonly omit determinants of criminal behavior that vary … with the business cycle, creating correlation between unemployment rates and the residuals in aggregate crime regressions … accompanying omitted variables bias to estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime. Using a state-level panel for the period …

In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … possible detrimental impacts in unemployment entry effects and unemployment duration effects. We find that unemployment entry … immigration effect on unemployment duration. Within almost all subgroups there is a significant increase in the length of …

This paper uses the immigration sample of the German Socioeconomic Panel to analyse the earnings and unemployment … Poland and the former USSR have higher unemployment risks than those from East Germany or Romania. Ethnic networks are shown …