Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in … macroeconomics and labor economics. Several models like e.g. matching models with endogenous job destruction explicitly predict an … asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment, whereas linear models with Gaussian innovations preclude such dynamics. This …

This paper analyzes transitions into and out of 3 different labor market states, social assistance, unemployment and … that immigrants are more likely to receive both social assistance and unemployment compensation than natives. Immigrants … unemployment insurance in a year, given participation in the previous year. The empirical results suggest that refugee immigrants …

unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting …The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labor market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct …

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the … European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the …-born workers' assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of …

This paper challenges what is the standard account of UK unemployment, namely that the major swings in unemployment … unemployment are due, instead, to very prolonged after-effects of persistent (transitory but long-lasting) shocks. We argue that (a …) past UK labour market shocks have prolonged after-effects on unemployment due to interactions among different lagged …

active labor market policy, are only partly reported as unemployment. A review of the evidence on the effectiveness of labor … effects of wage policy have been overrated. Differences in unemployment rates are also the result of more ample labor supply …This study surveys the development of the East German labor market after the unification of Germany. We explain that in …

well as, immigrants' labor market experiences are discussed. The advantages of Canada's equal share rule of the allocation …. The importance of the right human capital mix and experience are found to be needed to guarantee positive labor market …