survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …

labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in …This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …

labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in …This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …

increased the unemployment rate over this period. More precisely, empirical evidence suggests that the creation of one public …

-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …