waves to estimate how regional population reacts to asymmetric shocks. These shocks are measured by non-employment rates …, unemployment rates, and wages in fixed-effects regressions which effectively use changes in these indicators over time within … regions as identifying information. Because we include region and time effects, we interpret regression-adjusted population …

-19 pandemic, overall labour market conditions were relatively stable, with mismatched unemployment returning to pre …

signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and …. Wage growth has been low in most developed economies because of underutilized labor if properly measured. Germany seems to … wage setting and labor market reforms. …

individual shifts from paid employment to either unemployment or self-employment over the period 2001-13, as linked to changes in … probability of workers to become self-employed. R&D increases the probability of moving from unemployment to paid employment …

the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the … 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 …

policy-oriented studies have dealt with the evolution of unemployment in 2020, often country by country, this article focuses … on the evolution of unemployment as well as inactivity across European countries. Indeed, previous crises have typically … lead not only to more unemployment but also to larger numbers of discouraged unemployed and thus more inactivity. It …