rates of unemployment and the business cycle over the last decade. We develop the theoretical framework that predicts that … the individual perceptions of job insecurity depend on regional unemployment rates and on the within-group variance of … Monitoring Survey. Our results indicate that while higher rates of unemployment make workers feel less job secure, the wage …

US to the worst recession the world has witnessed for over six decades. Through an in-depth review of the crisis in terms … collapse and rising unemployment, this paper stresses that the impact of the crisis is rather diverse, reflecting differences …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

for economies with either an earnings-related or flatrate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive … feature of the analysis is the comparison of both unemployment compensation systems in a two-country setting. It is … demonstrated that the performance of a system with earnings-related or flat-rate unemployment benefits depends on whether the labor …

cycle component. We find significantly larger unemployment responses to economic shocks for low-skilled workers relative to …

The mild response of the German labor market to the worst global recession in post-war history appears as an economic …

This paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain … reaction theory of unemployment, which focuses on (a) the interaction among labor market adjustment processes, (b) the … growth drivers. Estimating a system of labor market equations for a panel of EU countries, we derive the dynamic unemployment …

only the end of unemployment for the new entrepreneur but also some further positive effects, e.g., direct job creation …