We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from … unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the … total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the model using (micro) survey data and (macro) administrative data from France …

local labour market is in close proximity of other labour markets, a local shock that increases unemployment may not lead to … lower pay rates if employers fear outward migration of their workers. Hence, the unemployment elasticity of pay will be …

In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original … focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration …, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate out of unemployment have been investigated. Unlike the partial …

. This model yields a simple relationshipbetween (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii … andallow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for theUS is consistent with an unemployment rate of …

. Our estimation results show that a 1 percent point decrease in unemployment rate increases wage offers with 3 percent …

Why are regional unemployment differentials in Europe so persistent if, as the wage curve literature demonstrates …, there is no compensation in labour markets? We hypothesize that workers in high-unemployment regions are compensated in … housing markets. Modelling regional unemployment differentials as a consequence of centralized wage bargaining, we show that …

work from unemployment insu rance, we do not find that the weighting method outperforms Cox survivor function predictions. …