suggests that increased inactivity among older workers, the so called She-cession (particularly in the US) and shifting worker …

The negative and stable relationship between an economy’s aggregate demand conditions and overall unemployment is well …-documented. We show that there is a large degree of heterogeneity in the cyclical sensitivities of unemployment across worker and … economy groups. First, unemployment is more than twice as sensitive to aggregate demand in advanced as in emerging market and …

This paper combines both micro and macro approaches to identify the drivers of (un)employment and inactivity in … unemployment. High unemployment of young and low-skilled workers reflects substantial unemployment traps, while disincentives for … (respectively seniors). Further reduction of structural unemployment requires better integration of vulnerable groups into the labor …

-related variables accounts for changes (rises) in the Okun's parameter in the US in recent decades. Accordingly, the unemployment gap is …

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 …