The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labor market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct …

labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries …

compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment …We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply …

. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a …, their recent reforms and - where already possible - effects of these reforms. Overall, Germany seems to be on the right …

activation, redefining the link between social protection and labour market policies on the one hand and employment on the other … principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the … US, Sweden and Denmark. It assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of activation policies in terms of bringing the …

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role – Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … – Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers? assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …

than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in …

participation in unemployment spells - to assess the nature of labour market policy effectiveness. The experiment was conducted in … two counties in Denmark during the winter of 2005-6. The treatment consisted of a dramatic intensification of labour … increases in the exit rate from unemployment ranging from 20 to 40%. When introducing time-varying indicators for the various …

2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … and employment. There is some evidence that short-time compensation programs stabilize permanent employment and reduce … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …