interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

This paper studies the relationship between the change in the unemployment rate and output growth using an approach … recessions. The framework also highlights the potential misspecification in conventional models of Okun's Law unless stringent …

This paper analyzes changes in the risk of unemployment and changes in the distribution of unemployment duration for … employment subsample 1975-1997 is used for the analysis. It contains employment and unemployment trajectories of about 500 …, marital status etc. we identify significant differences in the first three quintiles of the unemployment duration distribution …

This paper empirically analyzes the distribution of unemployment durations in West Germany before and after the changes … during the mid 1980s in the maximum entitlement periods for unemployment benefits for elderly unemployed. The analysis is … Germany. We introduce two proxies for unemployment, since the data do not involve a precise economic definition of …

Economic theory suggests that an extension of the maximum length of entitlement for unemployment benefits increases the … duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s … unemployment is not directly observed. For this reason we bound the reform effect on unemployment duration over different …

This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …