’ relative position persists: those with the highest unemployment rates in 1996 were also in the worse position in 2012. To …. Shock responses are channelled via changes in unemployment, labour market participation, and spatial mobility. Our results … participation rates are the main adjustment mechanism in expansion, unemployment and spatial mobility become the central ones in …

Purpose – This paper aims to provide an account of the unemployment performance of two Nordic countries during their … conduct dynamic simulation exercises and explore the determinants of unemployment. Findings – The analysis yields two main … findings. First, the capital stock was the most important determinant of the unemployment trajectory in both countries. This …

possible between different segments of the labour market, we concentrate on unemployment experience and wage growth for a panel …

Previous estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime commonly omit determinants of criminal behavior that vary … with the business cycle, creating correlation between unemployment rates and the residuals in aggregate crime regressions … accompanying omitted variables bias to estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime. Using a state-level panel for the period …

In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … possible detrimental impacts in unemployment entry effects and unemployment duration effects. We find that unemployment entry … immigration effect on unemployment duration. Within almost all subgroups there is a significant increase in the length of …

This paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain … reaction theory of unemployment, which focuses on (a) the interaction among labor market adjustment processes, (b) the … growth drivers. Estimating a system of labor market equations for a panel of EU countries, we derive the dynamic unemployment …

overly long unemployment durations. We examine the influence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …

In this paper, we study the separate effects of unemployment and job displacement on fertility in a sample of white … collar women in Austria. Using an instrumental variable approach, we show that unemployment incidence as such has no negative … the incidence or the duration of the associated unemployment spell. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015 …