unemployment in five former communist economies and inthe western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the … evolution ofunemployment together with that of inflows into unemployment and vacancies...<br< …

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 …

that households with a participating wife are better able to deal with unemployment of the husband. A supplementary … sensitive to his own unemployment income if the wife is nonparticipating. This implies that unemployment benefits have a …

This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment … mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates has long neglected the question of how regional imbalances arise … unemployment regions have a higher, not a lower rate of reallocation; this suggests, in turn, that they do not suffer from low job …

transitions, and this allows for estimation of the degree of search frictions. The firm data are informative on labor productivity …