In this paper we challenge the traditional labour market view, which argues that unemployment is determined in the long … the permanent and transitory components for the movements of the unemployment rate in four countries (Austria, France, UK …, and USA). We find that the transitory component has a significant impact on unemployment only in the US. In contrast to …

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 labour market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … aggregate measures of unemployment responses to temporary and permanent shocks. These measures are temporal and quantitative …