pandemic in Austria, relying on the register-based labour market career dataset from the Austrian Micro Data Center (AMDC) for … the 2018-2021 period. The analysis focuses on the divergences in out-of-unemployment transitions and medium …-term employment stability among those who lost their jobs early in the pandemic in contrast to the group of the longer-term unemployed …

We examine the role of unemployment inflows and outflows in contributing to unemployment cyclicality in Czechia and … unemployment variance decomposition. We find that the labour market fluidity is higher in Poland than in Czechia, with Polish … workers moving in and out of unemployment more frequently than their Czech counterparts. For both countries, the upward …

historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …