temporary employment to unemployment, were the main factor behind rising unemployment. Reduced unemployment outflows did not … contribute substantially to the increase in unemployment during the early phase of the crisis. …

We discuss the ease with which individuals can move between employment, unemployment and inactivity over time in the EU …. Transitions from unemployment and inactivity back into employment are relatively weak in Central Eastern, Mediterranean and …

labor mobility within and between EU countries, in combination with a selective immigration policy based on labor market …

This paper assesses the impact the Great Recession had on individuals' transitions to and from unemployment in Ireland …. The rate of transition from unemployment to employment declined between 2006 and 2011, while the rate from employment to … unemployment increased. The results indicate that young people are much less likely to exit unemployment but, at the same time …

economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in … shows that, at least for the time being, unemployment increases have been contained in countries with comparatively strong …

inflation and unemployment differentials. Second, we find that asymmetries in labor market structures tend to increase the …How does the asymmetry of labor market institutions affect the adjustment of a currency union to shocks? To answer this … and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we focus on the differentials in inflation and unemployment between countries …

employment level. Immigrants, being new to the labor market, may be less aware of employment protection regulations and less …

temporary employment to unemployment, were the main factor behind the rise in unemployment; while reduced unemployment outflows … did not contribute substantially to the increase in unemployment during the early phase of the crisis …

The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in … unemployment rates across countries but does not explain why geographical mobility is very low in some countries (on average, three … times lower in Europe than in the U.S.). We build a model in which both unemployment and mobility rates are endogenous. Our …

the estimates of the impact of labour demand shocks on participation. For men, unemployment increased in response to …