waves to estimate how regional population reacts to asymmetric shocks. These shocks are measured by non-employment rates …, unemployment rates, and wages in fixed-effects regressions which effectively use changes in these indicators over time within … regions as identifying information. Because we include region and time effects, we interpret regression-adjusted population …

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 …

Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to … panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected … just over 10000 observations, we predict changes in the unemployment rate 12 months ahead. We do so using individuals …

The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in … unemployment rates across countries but does not explain why geographical mobility is very low in some countries (on average, three … times lower in Europe than in the U.S.). We build a model in which both unemployment and mobility rates are endogenous. Our …

inflation and unemployment differentials. Second, we find that asymmetries in labor market structures tend to increase the …How does the asymmetry of labor market institutions affect the adjustment of a currency union to shocks? To answer this … and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we focus on the differentials in inflation and unemployment between countries …

the ease with which individuals can move between employment, unemployment and inactivity over time. The results suggest … countries. Nonetheless, transitions from unemployment and inactivity back into the labour market are relatively weak in the euro … remaining in unemployment over two consecutive periods decreased in Sweden, the euro area, and, to a lesser extent, Denmark …

principle, the program should be able to affect the frictional and mismatch components of unemployment, if not the Keynesian and … training systems. To tackle the Keynesian and neoclassical components of unemployment, instead, it is vital to rethink the … European austerity and reduce the labor wedge. …

Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year … analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In search for important determinants of these transitions, six EU-countries with … different labor market-regimes are selected as examples (Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Ireland, UK). Within these …

labor market, the findings clearly demonstrate a gender-job satisfaction paradox in these countries. From this point of view … (socio-economic and institutional) determinants of labor market statuses and subjective (assessed and evaluated) perspectives … are mutually complementary. The more restrictive the labor market access and process is for women, the more likely a …