region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment …

German unemployment in the long term, and the cyclical sensitivity of the unemployment experience across demographic groups …. The analysis moves beyond that of unemployment rates to a detailed investigation of transition rates from employment to … unemployment and vice versa. While long-term differences across demographic groups are dominating the structure of both job loss …

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20%. Moreover, we find that …

monthly employment and unemployment rates and the monthly transition intensities between the states of employment …, unemployment, and out-of-the-labor-force for the German labor market between January/February 1983 and November/ December 1994. The …