This paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain … reaction theory of unemployment, which focuses on (a) the interaction among labor market adjustment processes, (b) the … growth drivers. Estimating a system of labor market equations for a panel of EU countries, we derive the dynamic unemployment …

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … separate from employment and endogenously reallocate between markets, in response to changing aggregate and local conditions … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a …

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …