This paper develops a framework for analyzing unemployment in terms of variations in the nt.imber and distribution of … people becoming unemployed and inindividual probabilities of leaving unemployment. Contrary to the emphasis on exit … the size and distribution of the inflow Into unemployment are the primary determinant of the unemployment rate. Instead of …

-sector workers transition from career employment to complete labor force withdrawal, with a focus on the role of bridge employment … findings suggest that the prevalence of work after leaving career employment among public-sector workers resembles that of … private-sector workers, although with a higher prevalence of part-time bridge employment, a result that has important …

from just two of those types. Low employment types frequently circle among unemployment, short-term jobs, and being out of … dynamics in the tradition of Mortensen and Pissarides (1994). Our estimates discern 5 distinct types. Most unemployment comes … the labor market. Short-term jobs play a role in the job-finding process related to the role of unemployment. These are …

New data compel a new view of events in the labor market during a recession. Unemployment rises almost entirely because … finding from new data is that a large fraction of workers departing jobs move to new jobs without intervening unemployment. I … property by invoking a new form of sticky wages or by introducing information and other frictions into the employment …

employment and unemployment chances of unemployed job seekers. If anything, temporary help work seems to provide an access …Based on administrative data from the federal employment services in Germany, this paper applies statistical matching … techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function to regular employment of temporary help work for unemployed job seekers. Our …