Although the size of the labor force is nearly acyclical, worker flows between employment and unemployment on the one … paper lays out a job-search model to uncover the determinants of worker flows between employment, unemployment and …

Survey (LFS) to construct worker transition rates across employment, unemployment, and inactivity. Our approach involves … splitting of unemployment outflows between employment and inactivity. In turn, the estimated job search factor can be used in a … transition rates: (a) from employment to unemployment have fallen over time (b) from unemployment to employment were unusually …

Cross-country employment differences are concentrated among women, the youth, and older individuals. In this paper, we … document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to … aggregate employment differences across a large panel of European countries. We then build a life-cycle Diamond …

economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in … further dualization of labour markets given that risks are allocated unequally across types of employment …

unemployment risk alongside an additional risk of involuntary part-time employment. A calibration of the model consistent with U … unemployment. This finding relies critically on the much higher probability to return to full-time employment from part-time work …