The literature on unemployment has mostly focused on labor market issues while the impact of capital formation is …

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 …

During the nineties, unemployment has fallen in a number of European countries while it has remained high in others … the unemployment problem. Some speculative thoughts are offered as to why those factors might be more stringent in … countries where unemployment remained high. …

global financial markets enables capital owners to invest abroad, thereby fostering unemployment at the extensive industry … margin. Whether a country benefits from FDI in terms of unemployment depends on the respective country's net-FDI, measured as … the difference between in- and outward FDI. The derived FDI and unemployment nexus is tested employing macroeconomic data …

negative duration dependence of exit rates from unemployment. Our model has a number of novel testable implications. For …

performance, we apply a gross flow analysis based on EU-SILC longitudinal data. While in Spain increases in youth unemployment … uniformly, also to the jobfinding rates. Survival functions estimates point to prolonged unemployment duration and increasing … long term unemployment, while both these tendencies apply relatively more to the young unemployed. Proportional hazard …

suggest that regional mismatch did not play an important role in explaining movements of aggregate unemployment. Across … industries and occupations, there was a decrease in mismatch unemployment from over 5 percent to below 4 percent (on the highest … disaggregation level), whereas the share of mismatch unemployment (across industries and occupations) within total unemployment …