employment, informal employment, unemployment, and nonparticipation. We compute the contribution of each transition rate to … fluctuations in unemployment and informality rates. We identify five stylized facts: (i) Nearly 40% of the fluctuations in the … unemployment rate involves unemployment ins and outs from/to informal jobs. (ii) More than 40% of the fluctuations in informality …

of opening up of the Argentine economy nor it could be expected to be a big loser. So, the huge unemployment experienced … promoted an increase in the demand for skilled labor. Reasons for the persistence of unemployment are discussed. The impact of … the increasing unemployment and growing inequality in wage distribution on income distribution is analyzed. The …

a breadwinner’s job loss. Firm events and local unemployment shocks are exploited as exogenous sources of variation to …

, coverage of social security does not provide enough support in coping with unemployment shocks. Instead, we find that mothers …

reached high economic growth rates and a stable macroeconomic environment together with a significant raise in unemployment …. This dynamic was associated to increases in the entry flows to unemployment and the average duration of these episodes. The … proportion of long-term unemployment also grew significantly.The aim of this paper is twofold. First, to evaluate the presence of …

economic crisis through the unemployment rates. …

mobility between non-registered salaried employment and inactivity (mainly among low-skilled women workers) has been observed …