Using data from the CPS this paper examines the role of birth-country networks on immigrants' unemployment duration … from 2001 to 2013. We find that networks significantly lower unemployment duration for all immigrants. Varying the effect … of networks over duration categories we find that networks are more effective in lowering duration for immigrants …

. We show that ERTEs stabilize unemployment rates by allowing workers to remain with their employers in highly affected …

On the basis of aggregate data for the early nineties, we analyse the determinants of unemployment duration for laid … Proportional Hazard specification can be too restrictive, leading to an overstatement of the extent of true negative duration … dependence. We conclude that negative duration dependence is largely spurious. We also decompose the time variation of the hazard …

role for the cyclicality of the unemployment outflow rate, although the contribution of the duration of unemployment is … significant. In contrast, composition effects dampen the cyclicality of the unemployment inflow rate considerably. We further … observe that the initially positive contribution of composition effects to a higher unemployment outflow rate turns negative …

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

This paper examines whether unemployment of non-western immigrant workers in the Netherlands was disproportionally … affected by the Great Recession. We analyze unemployment data covering the period November 2007 to February 2013 finding that … the Great Recession affected unemployment rates of non-western immigrant workers in absolute terms more than unemployment …

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 …

margin since it is driven by flows from permanent wage employment to unemployment. We also show that older, non-Latvian and …

This paper assesses the impact that the 2009 Great Recession had on individual's transitions to and from unemployment … in Ireland. The rate of transition from unemployment to employment declined between 2006 and 2011, while the rate from … employment to unemployment increased. The impact of some of the factors identified as contributing to the likelihood of a …