Survey to compare the period of growth of 1995-2007 to the Great Recession and its aftermath of 2008-11. In single earner … couples during the recession, both men and women substantially increased their job search activity following a partner's job … search during recession did not appear to translate into more success in finding work for either men or women. Among dual …

economic outcomes, including unemployment. In this paper, we examine the role of two key labour market institutions …

interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

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 …

Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases …

This study examines individuals' unemployment experiences from the age of 18 up to the age of 35 using a large panel of … administrative records on unemployment related benefit claims of men in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. The main focus … is on the extent to which individuals' unemployment experiences are affected by regional and skill differences, i …

We use quasi-random variation in graduation years during the onset of a very deep national recession to study the … recession for low-grade students in particular. In contrast, we document very long-lasting effects on family formation outcomes …, again concentrated among low-grade students. Young women who graduated into the recession because of the policy-pilot formed …

it varied over the business cycle during the Great Recession. We show that immigrants in general have responded to … migration), whereas other groups of immigrants became particularly fluid during the Great Recession, such as those from new …

not the case. Although unemployment is low, the labor market is not 'tight'. On the contrary, we show that what matters …, just as in the Great Recession we anticipate deflation in the near future, coupled with rising joblessness and recession. …