workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast …-term unemployed or leave the workforce altogether, never to regain regular employment even after as long as twenty years. Many join … the ranks of the irregular economy, many drop out of the labour force. "Workforce disposal" refers to the process …

market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms …

unemployment rates. To this end, we develop a matching model à la Pissarides (2000) in which homeowners are assumed to be less … depends crucially on the importance of mobility costs; (2) while higher homeownership may harm macroeconomic labour market …

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers' assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …

The relationships among geographical mobility, unemployment and the value of owner-occupied housing are studied in an … equilibrium, unemployment rates for home-owners are higher than for otherwise identical renters. Unemployment and home … more mobile than owners, the impact of home-ownership on aggregate unemployment is quantitatively small. …

through changes in job-mobility and employment patterns as well as in job tenure. Finally, we find that adjustments at the …