This paper investigates the link between unemployment and external trade in Germany, using data on unemployment …, international trade and economic activity for the 16 German federal states (Länder). With panel data econometrics we show that …

individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the …

and labour market instability is not well understood. Using twelve years of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel we … of individual characteristics. Applying dynamic panel estimation we identify the mechanism through which poor health … persistence in the dynamics of poor health and non-employment. -- Health ; non-employment ; risk ; ageing ; dynamic panel data …

, however, rejects this thesis for German panel data and finds individual unemployment to be even more hurtful when aggregate …