unemployment to employment significantly increases probability of moving up and decreases probability of moving down. Technical …

speed of transition examining employment restructuring in labor demand. The local shortterm unemployment (excessive layoffs …

This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment … mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates has long neglected the question of how regional imbalances arise … high unemployment regions have a higher, not a lower rate of reallocation; this suggests, in turn, that they do not suffer …

on overall aggregate employment, participation or unemployment rates. -- job security ; employment composition …

. -- unemployment dynamics ; structural multi-equation models ; chain reaction theory ; simulations ; PIGS … dynamic simulations that account for the swings of the unemployment rates before and after the 2007 crisis. Our results … productivity, and demographics, succeed in explaining a great part of the changes in unemployment in both countries …

The way age-specific unemployment rates fluctuate over the business cycle differs significantly across countries. This … paper examines the effect of labor-market institutions on the fluctuations of age-specific unemployment rates based on panel … existing workforce induces the employment adjustment of new entrants into the labor market. -- unemployment ; labor market …

While there is a fairly broad consensus regarding the potential adverse effects of generous unemployment benefit …. Findings indicate that although it takes time for unemployment benefit reforms to pay off, such reforms do not appear to entail … any negative short-run effects. There is however some suggestive evidence that reducing unemployment benefits could have …