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 …

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 …

temporary employment to unemployment, were the main factor behind the rise in unemployment; while reduced unemployment outflows … did not contribute substantially to the increase in unemployment during the early phase of the crisis. …

Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in … countries have started a new wave of labor market reforms in the aftermath of the 2008/09 crisis to tackle a number of issues …, including labor market segmentation. This particularly concerns reforms in: (1) employment protection, i.e. dismissal protection …

This paper studies optimal taxation schemes for education in a search-matching model where the labor market is divided … in higher education. We show that, with current labor market characteristics, the target set by governments seems …

using UK data, it finds that unemployment has increased for both natives and migrants as has, consequently, the benefits …

reduced unemployment most in the European countries with low or average levels of labour costs. …