cultural identity and financial expectations and by large unrelated to economic background variables like income inequality. We … find evidence that negative financial expectations are positively related to Euroskepticism in Western European countries …

effects and lagged unemployment. We also use industrial firm's expectations of future employment, which are also predictive of …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 …

policy mix of unemployment insurance agencies. We analyze unique data on three sources of information on the probability of … re-employment within 6 months (RE6), for the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were …

Job loss expectations were widespread among workers in East Germany after reunification with West Germany. Though … respect to their job risk. Over time, job loss expectations fell and converged to West German levels, which was driven by a … up to West Germans regarding the accuracy of job loss expectations. …

market variables, such as unemployment, wage differentials and employment protection, and to the funding of tertiary …

OpenStreetMap can significantly improve estimates of labor force participation and unemployment rates. Incorporating geospatial … information substantially increases the accuracy of male and female labor force participation and unemployment rates at the state … unemployment. Small area estimation using a nested error conditional random effect model also greatly improves municipal estimates …

approach provides accurate effect estimates, especially if time-varying variation in the unemployment rate of the local labor …

in France. We use a rich administrative register of unemployment and training spells as well as the information on local … labor demand that is used by unemployment agencies to allocate training programs. The results show that the average …

This paper presents a convenient shortcut method for implementing the Heckman estimator of the dynamic random effects … three alternative approximations, first in an empirical model for the probability of unemployment and then in a set of …

institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially … of unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the …