document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to …Cross-country employment differences are concentrated among women, the youth, and older individuals. In this paper, we … aggregate employment differences across a large panel of European countries. We then build a life-cycle Diamond …

historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …

Survey (LFS) to construct worker transition rates across employment, unemployment, and inactivity. Our approach involves … splitting of unemployment outflows between employment and inactivity. In turn, the estimated job search factor can be used in a … transition rates: (a) from employment to unemployment have fallen over time (b) from unemployment to employment were unusually …

We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and … part-time work. Transitions from full-time to involuntary part-time employment dominate this dynamics, spiking up at …

unemployed do not directly compete with employed job seekers. -- on-the-job search ; unemployment ; job competition ; employment … individual characteristics, preferences over working hours, job-search strategies, and employment histories. We find substantial …

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 … interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market …

probabilities between private and public employment, unemployment and inactivity. We examine the stocks and flows by gender, age and … unemployment rate. Public-sector employment contributes 20 percent to fluctuations in the unemployment rate in the UK, 15 percent …

employment dynamics in China from 1990 to 2015. The share of routine manual jobs decreased significant from 57% to 32%; both the … probability for people with given demographic characteristics into different employment categories and the interaction effect …

. Although the U.S. case has been studied extensively, the importance of job finding and employment exit rates to unemployment …To better understand unemployment dynamics it is key to assess the role played by job creation and job destruction … finding and job separation rates for the U.S. unemployment rate dynamics. Drawing on this approach, we are able to reconcile …