with the 1980s recession it is concluded that there is a high cross-country correlation of the unemployment rates over the …. Young workers are the most affected by the Great Recession both in terms of unemployment rates as well as employment rates … impact. To analyze how economic growth and labor market institutions have affected unemployment two types of models are …

characteristics in the two samples and estimate a competing risk model distinguishing job-to-job, job-to-unemployment, and other … transitions. We find that job-to-job transitions are pro-cyclical, while unemployment transitions are counter …-cyclical. Individuals most affected by the economic crisis tend to be young males, living in regions with high unemployment rates, with low …

between employment and unemployment states are identified using monthly transition expectations. Firstly, it is shown that … are not sensitive to either anticipated transition into unemployment or anticipated transition into employment which is in …

unemployment growth and interest rate growth series around the Great Moderation, the evidence for these breaks disappears when … using the unconditional tests. Therefore, there is no evidence of long-run mean or volatility shifts in unemployment growth …

This paper examines whether unemployment of non-western immigrant workers in the Netherlands was disproportionally … affected by the Great Recession. We analyze unemployment data covering the period November 2007 to February 2013 finding that … the Great Recession affected unemployment rates of non-western immigrant workers in absolute terms more than unemployment …

also find that the quality of the post-unemployment jobs was not affected by the activation program. Both findings confirm …

Our paper revisits Okun's relationship between observed unemployment rates and output gaps. We include in the … unemployment rate) over time. The Okun coeffi cient is not only different for young,prime-age and older workers, it decreases with … reducing the overall unemployment rate, it will also have the distributional effect of lowering youth unemployment …

We study how changes in the maximum benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment in the Netherlands. Until … August 2003, workers who became unemployed after age 57.5 were entitled to unemployment benefits until the age of 65, after … which they would receive old age pensions. This characteristic made it attractive for workers to enter unemployment shortly …

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits … as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we … evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment stability, on exits from the labor market and on earnings. In our analysis …