The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in … unemployment rates across countries but does not explain why geographical mobility is very low in some countries (on average, three … times lower in Europe than in the U.S.). We build a model in which both unemployment and mobility rates are endogenous. Our …

inflation and unemployment differentials. Second, we find that asymmetries in labor market structures tend to increase the …How does the asymmetry of labor market institutions affect the adjustment of a currency union to shocks? To answer this … and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we focus on the differentials in inflation and unemployment between countries …

temporary employment to unemployment, were the main factor behind the rise in unemployment; while reduced unemployment outflows … did not contribute substantially to the increase in unemployment during the early phase of the crisis …

labor market, the findings clearly demonstrate a gender-job satisfaction paradox in these countries. From this point of view … (socio-economic and institutional) determinants of labor market statuses and subjective (assessed and evaluated) perspectives … are mutually complementary. The more restrictive the labor market access and process is for women, the more likely a …

Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year … analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In search for important determinants of these transitions, six EU countries with … different labor market-regimes are selected as examples (Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Ireland, UK). Within these …

We examine the impact of the European Central Bank's monetary policy on the euro area labor markets over the period … 2010-2018. Using Jordà's (2005) local projection method, we find that unemployment rates decline in response to …. In the periphery countries, the reduction in unemployment rates is relatively pronounced, while in the core countries it …

Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to … panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected … just over 10000 observations, we predict changes in the unemployment rate 12 months ahead. We do so using individuals …

the 1980s, Germany emerged as the sick man of Europe with a labor market characterized by persistently high unemployment …We provide new estimates on worker flow rates in and out of unemployment for Germany covering the last six decades. In … rates. We attribute a substantial fraction of the rise in unemployment to a dramatic increase in inflow rates compared to …