We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S.. Using two … complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the … marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …

This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …

policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We performthe first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults … in France, exploiting a uniquelongitudinal dataset from the unemployment insurance system... …

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment …

Although an inverse relationship between sickness absence and unemployment has beendocumented in a number of studies … whether this empiricalregularity is due to changes in the individual costs of absence when unemployment increases …