unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high … unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies. Instead, there are few vacancies when unemployment is high because there is a low … cyclical behaviour of stocks and flows in the labour market also without search frictions. In periods of high unemployment …

increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …

A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor … 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates … causally link our empirical findings to the reduction in long-term unemployment benefits using a heterogeneous-agent labor …

dead-end nature of temporary contracts, their effects on employment, unemployment, churn, training, productivity growth …

dead-end nature of temporary contracts, their effects on employment, unemployment, churn, training, productivity growth …

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 …

-generations framework we show that in an environment characterized by unemployment, a reform towards a private pension system in the steady …

literature suggests that working time accounts are likely to reduce layoffs and inhibit increases in unemployment during …

Tracking individual workers across employers and industries after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that … with product demand at Brazil's export destinations and real exchange rate components. Worker effects are important …