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 …

interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

This paper is on the early labor market experiences of second-generation immigrants in the Netherlands. We find that …

relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …

The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which … the unemployment rate decreased a lot. A common feature of the successful countries is that they implemented a …

This paper examines whether unemployment of non-western immigrant workers in the Netherlands was disproportionally … affected by the Great Recession. We analyze unemployment data covering the period November 2007 to February 2013 finding that … the Great Recession affected unemployment rates of non-western immigrant workers in absolute terms more than unemployment …

Our paper revisits Okun's relationship between observed unemployment rates and output gaps. We include in the … unemployment rate) over time. The Okun coefficient is not only different for young, prime-age and older workers, it decreases with … reducing the overall unemployment rate, it will also have the distributional effect of lowering youth unemployment. …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

Recent evaluations of active labor market policies are not very optimistic about their effectiveness to bring … job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells …