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 … matching model, we estimate that about 45% of the surge in Spanish unemployment could have been avoided had Spain adopted …

This paper proposes a protocol for considering the social cost of unemployment by taking into account three different … aspects: incidence, severity and hysteresis. Incidence refers to the conventional unemployment rate; severity takes in both … unemployment duration and the associated income loss; and hysteresis refers to the probability of remaining unemployed. The social …

This paper studies short-time work arrangements (ERTEs) when aggregate risk is partially sector-specific. In Spain, the …. We show that ERTEs stabilize unemployment rates by allowing workers to remain with their employers in highly affected …

This paper studies the mechanisms driving the persistently high unemployment rate during the last recession and mild …, we propose a methodology to decompose changes in the unemployment rate into worker inflows and outflows across industry …

This study proposes a new approach to the analysis of non-employment and its duration in Germany, Italy and Spain using … administrative longitudinal databases. Non-employment includes the discouraged unemployed not entitled to draw unemployment benefits …

-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the European Community Household Panel for Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., a … unemployed which offer a pathway to early retirement such as, Germany and Spain, older displaced workers exhibit lower re …

. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword searches and unemployment rates using monthly German data and …

Unemployment rates are often higher for migrants than for natives. This could result from longer periods of … unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. This paper jointly examines male native-migrant differences in the … duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using German panel data and bivariate discrete time hazard rate models …

. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants escaping unemployment and improving their labor … start-ups out of unemployment with regular business founders, with respect to not only personal characteristics but also …