Although it is now widely-accepted that unemployment is associated with sharply lower levels of individual well …-being, relatively little is known about how this effect depends on unemployment duration. Data from three large-scale European panels is … used to shed light on this issue; these data allow us to distinguish habituation to unemployment from sample selection. The …

Drawing upon data from the largest cross-country study of labor market concentration to date, this paper analyzes the … level of concentration of labor input markets in Europe and North America and provides a comparative perspective on … employers' monopsony power. It explores the characteristics of monopsony in labor markets and documents its impact by looking at …