This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We … labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in …

unemployment at business cycle frequencies by using administrative data on registered unemployment and labor force surveys. We … first investigate the fluctuations in steady state unemployment, and then in current unemployment in order to take into … account the unemployment deviations from equilibrium. Our results show the dominant role of the job finding rate in accounting …

the fragility of low-seniority jobs implies that layoff costs reduce the average job duration and increase unemployment …

The paper investigates the link between the over-exposure of African immigrants to unemployment in France and their …

Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor … market performance of various sub-population groups in France. Our results indicate that immigrants to France are less …

The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the … US the unemployment rate is approximately 9 percentage points higher for blacks than for whites. Commute time data … we investigate the impact of spatial mismatch on the unemployment rate of ethnic groups using the matching model proposed …

abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …

in France, exploiting a unique longitudinal dataset from the unemployment insurance system. Using the so-called timing … policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We perform the first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults … unemployment, but has a significant and positive effect on the duration of the subsequent employment spell. Accounting for training …