Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to … panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected … just over 10000 observations, we predict changes in the unemployment rate 12 months ahead. We do so using individuals …

We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We … estimate that households in the USA, on average, had about five hundred daily calories per equivalent adult more than their … French and German counterparts, with Belgian and British workers closer to the USA levels. We ask if that energy bonus gave …

Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume … jobs. This form of wage rigidity does not affect job creation and thus cannot explain the unemployment volatility puzzle …

large and persistent negative relationships between unemployment and the risk of repeated unemployment and being out of … that unemployment has a negative effect on later labour market attachment. This is consistent with existing findings in the … present in the data before changing the inference. Thus, unemployment leaves young workers with long-term scars …

Based on administrative registers from Norway, we examine how unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market … programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment and entrepreneurship. We find that the …

We find that the lifecycle employment profiles of nonwestern male labor migrants who came to Norway in the early 1970s …