During the nineties, unemployment has fallen in a number of European countries while it has remained high in others … the unemployment problem. Some speculative thoughts are offered as to why those factors might be more stringent in … countries where unemployment remained high. …

negative duration dependence of exit rates from unemployment. Our model has a number of novel testable implications. For …

average re-employment probabilities. Living in an area with high local unemployment reduces re-employment chances as does … somewhat if a worker is unemployed in an area with high overall unemployment. …

pay and the local unemployment rate in modern micro data. At the time of writing, the curve has been found in 40 nations …

lower structural rate of unemployment. We establish this fact using: (i) panel data from 20 OECD countries, (ii) cross … for within-country trade. Our main finding is robust to various definitions of unemployment rates and openness measures …. The preferred specification suggests that a 10 percent increase in total trade openness reduces unemployment by about one …

Unemployment varies substantially over time and across subgroups of the labour market. Worker flows among labour market … states act as key determinants of this. We examine how the structure of unemployment across groups and its cyclical movements … last 35 years, we decompose unemployment variation into parts accounted for by changes in rates of job loss, job finding …

the empirical literature estimating the matching function, commonly used to map unemployment and vacancies into hires …