labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries …

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 …

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 …

the outflow rate, which is consistent with a regime with strict employment protection legislation. In Spain, however, both …In this paper we study the contribution of inflows and outflows to the dynamics of unemployment in three European … countries, the United Kingdom, France and Spain. We compare performance in these three countries making use of both …

activation, redefining the link between social protection and labour market policies on the one hand and employment on the other … principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the … US, Sweden and Denmark. It assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of activation policies in terms of bringing the …

compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment …We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply …

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

participation in unemployment spells - to assess the nature of labour market policy effectiveness. The experiment was conducted in … two counties in Denmark during the winter of 2005-6. The treatment consisted of a dramatic intensification of labour … increases in the exit rate from unemployment ranging from 20 to 40%. When introducing time-varying indicators for the various …

We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design. Workers in Denmark … and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal … differences is that Southern European workers are less likely to find employment following displacement. Loss of employer …

influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and … reforms. Nonetheless, the gains are modest in comparison to a substantial and persistent performance advantage of U.S. skilled …