increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …

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 …

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 …

Persistent unemployment across OECD countries has led to increasing investments in activation programmes and, as a …

Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country fixed effects are added to panel … estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries - Austria; Belgium … predict changes in the unemployment rate 12 months in advance based on individuals' fears of unemployment, their perceptions …

increases the labor market tightness in the high-skilled labor market. This leads to a rising unemployment rate and falling … wages of low-skilled workers and a falling unemployment rate and rising wages of high-skilled workers. In a cali- bration to …

individual has been unemployed for 10 months, pointing to the existence of an unemployment stigma for Germany. The results are … evidence for an unemployment stigma determined by the contract type. …

EWE is a consequence of one of the most important labor institutions: the unemployment benefit (UB). We develop a model …