The persistence of U.S. unemployment has risen with each of the last three recessions, raising the specter that future … U.S. recessions might look more like the Eurosclerosis experience of the 1980s than traditional V-shaped recoveries of … factors include declining labor mobility, changing age structures, and the decline in trust among Americans. To determine how …

explore this idea across the US and EU by estimating gender gaps in potential wages. We recover information on wages for those … small in the US, the UK and most central and northern EU countries, and becomes sizeable in Ireland, France and southern EU …

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 …

used to shed light on this issue; these data allow us to distinguish habituation to unemployment from sample selection. The …