consistent with firms utilising part-time work to adjust their labour force to changing economic conditions. Institutions and …

significantly higher proportion of female workers in Europe prefer inactivity and a significantly lower percentage prefer full …

the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average and …

monthly employment and unemployment rates and the monthly transition intensities between the states of employment …, unemployment, and out-of-thelabor- force for the German labor market between January/February 1983 and November/ December 1994. The …

German unemployment in the long term, and the cyclical sensitivity of the unemployment experience across demographic groups …. The analysis moves beyond that of unemployment rates to a detailed investigation of transition rates from employment to … unemployment and vice versa. While long-term differences across demographic groups are dominating the structure of both job loss …

unemployment and labour market exclusion. The main findings of the study are that low levels of education and working experience … unemployment and nonparticipation. There is also evidence of budget constraints that eventually lead to decreasing reservation … wages or increasing search intensity, as unemployment spells become very long. We discuss some policy implications of our …