This paper examines the causes of observed increase in the duration of unemployment relative to the unemployment rate … the change in the structure of unemployment duration. In particular, we examine how much of the observed change can be … unemployment insurance and the change in union affiliation. We show that changes in the composition of the labor force and …

has not been a good predictor of whether the unemployment rate at the end of the expansion following a shift was higher or …

We provide a set of comparable estimates for the rates of inflow to and outflow from unemployment using publicly … available data for fourteen OECD economies. We then devise a method to decompose changes in unemployment into contributions … accounted for by changes in inflow and outflow rates for cases where unemployment deviates from its flow steady state, as it …

available data for fourteen OECD economies. We thendevise a method to decompose changes in unemployment into contributions … accountedfor by changes in inflow and outflow rates for cases where unemployment deviates fromits flow steady state, as it does in … unemploymentvariation within countries. For Anglo-Saxon economies we find approximately a 15:85inflow/outflow split to unemployment …