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 …

Population Survey extracts in 1980, specific to Miami but unrelated to the Boatlift. We also show that conflicting findings on … the labor-market effects of other important refugee waves can be produced by spurious correlation between the instrument …

made in terms of several macroeconomic indicators, GDP, Unemployment, Inflation, Current Account Balances, and debt. …

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration … differences in labor mobility and reallocation costs, which are typically ignored in American "International Trade" textbooks … human capital investments: they are not independent of the aggregate state of labor markets, and in particular, frictions …

these fluctuations. Our data and findings are relevant to inform a broader assessment of labor market performance and to … develop models of cyclical labor adjustment. …

not the case. Although unemployment is low, the labor market is not 'tight'. On the contrary, we show that what matters … to maintain their real wages by reducing labor demand still further. Furthermore, we argue inflationary pressures have …

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 …

labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in …This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …