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

. With regard to the West German unemployment, the effects of volatility are empirically analysed using three different … cyclical component of the unemployment rate, it can be demonstrated that the whole reported impact solely affects this …

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 …

lead to higher equilibrium unemployment via the generated real wage wedge. …

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … aggregate measures of unemployment responses to temporary and permanent shocks. These measures are temporal (depicting how long …

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 …

apprenticeship training have longer job durations. In contrast, the larger the number of unemployment and employment spells, the …