This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers' assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …

This study investigates job polarization in the United States and in France. In the data, the dynamics of employment … France until the mid-1990s, and then rebounded until 2007. The evolution of US routine employment went in opposite directions … skilled labor are the main drivers of polarization in a context of growing employment levels. In France, in contrast …

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labor market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct …

Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in … asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment, whereas linear models with Gaussian innovations preclude such dynamics. This … paper applies several tests for asymmetry to aggregate British, German and US unemployment data to assess the relevance of …

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 … labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in …

Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor … market performance of various sub-population groups in France. Our results indicate that immigrants to France are less …

little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration …

, unemployment rates, and wages in fixed-effects regressions which effectively use changes in these indicators over time within … the response to unemployment shocks in these economies. In India, the unemployment rate does not seem to be a reliable …

unemployment to disability and no impact on the transition rate to employment or inactivity. More precisely, individuals just below …