This papser assesses labour markets and unemployment in Slovakia over the period 1994-2004. To interpret labor markets … unemployment in Slovakia, the paper detects unemployment in the policy restructuring of the economy rather than in economic cycles …

Recently migration patterns in the euro area changed markedly in response to increasing unemployment disparities. This … business-cycle related fluctuations in net migration flows and the crucial role of unemployment and vacancies in shaping …-cycle migration. In this model unemployment arises from search and matching frictions. We endogenize migration via the unemployed …

that households with a participating wife are better able to deal with unemployment of the husband. A supplementary … sensitive to his own unemployment income if the wife is nonparticipating. This implies that unemployment benefits have a …

generate the trends in unemployment flows. …

unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … countercyclical net occupational mobility, the large volatility of unemployment and the cyclical properties of the unemployment …

We study optimal unemployment insurance (UI) policy over the business cycle, using a heterogeneous agent job …