The empirical literature on unemployment almost exclusively focuses on the duration of distinct unemployment spells. In … unemployment (defined as the total length of all unemployment spells over a 25-year period). This new perspective enables us to … answer questions regarding the long-term distribution and determinants of unemployment for West German birth cohorts 1950 …

more of them are residing with their parents. The unemployment rate at 23-27 years old for the 1996 college graduation … explain two thirds of the rise in unemployment and coresidence between the 2013 and 1996 graduation cohorts. Rising wage … dispersion is also important for the increase in unemployment, while declining parental income, rising student loan balances and …

as Germany? We argue that differences in employment protection can account for much of the gap. We develop a model in …-protected workers in Germany. …

panel data set for Germany, we follow workers over an extended period of time and provide evidence of both the short … stability and more likelihood of experiencing periods of unemployment. However, these negative effects of routine work appear to … be concentrated in increased employment to employment, and employment to unemployment transitions rather than longer …

This paper studies the effect of two labor market institutions, unemployment insurance (UI) and job search assistance … search unemployment, skill depreciation during unemployment, and idiosyncratic as well as aggregate labor market risk. The … substantial reduction in the output cost of recessions and a more moderate reduction in the welfare cost of recessions in Germany. …

-state unemployment by 1.4 percentage points. …