employment, informal employment, unemployment, and nonparticipation. We compute the contribution of each transition rate to … fluctuations in unemployment and informality rates. We identify five stylized facts: (i) Nearly 40% of the fluctuations in the … unemployment rate involves unemployment ins and outs from/to informal jobs. (ii) More than 40% of the fluctuations in informality …

This article studies whether immigration in voter's neighborhoods is a driving factor of the rise of Germany's major … right-wing party Alternative fuer Deutschland (AFD) and the decline of Angela Merkel's center ruling party the Christian …