movements in GDP, unemployment, vacancies, and wages in the period from 2007 until 2011. We show that contractionary financial … important in the U.K. and Sweden than in the U.S., but matching efficiency improved in Germany, helping to keep unemployment low …. A counterfactual experiment suggests that unemployment in Germany would have been substantially higher if the German …

Diamond (1994) that an individual?s probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases …

This study examines individuals? unemployment experiences from the age of 18 up to the age of 35 using a large panel of … administrative records on unemployment related benefit claims of men in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. The main focus … is on the extent to which individuals? unemployment experiences are affected by regional and skill differences, i …

Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases …

This study examines individuals' unemployment experiences from the age of 18 up to the age of 35 using a large panel of … administrative records on unemployment related benefit claims of men in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. The main focus … is on the extent to which individuals' unemployment experiences are affected by regional and skill differences, i …

Beveridge (full-employment-consistent) rate of unemployment (BECRU), derived from the unemployment-vacancies relationship. The … BECRU is the level of unemployment that minimises the non-productive use of labour. Based on a novel dataset for the period …. The European unemployment problem emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, as Beveridgean full employment gaps increased. In the …

probabilities between private and public employment, unemployment and inactivity. We examine the stocks and flows by gender, age and … unemployment rate. Public-sector employment contributes 20 percent to fluctuations in the unemployment rate in the UK, 15 percent …

part-time workers. A one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate led to an average decline in real hourly wages … of new hires are not helpful for understanding the behaviour of unemployment over the business cycle. …

This paper studies the unemployment accelerator, a mechanism where workers directly affect the firms' financial … conditions, and, in turn, firms' financial conditions feedback again to the real economy. The unemployment accelerator builds on … in labor and financial markets. We provide compelling micro-evidence of the unemployment accelerator: a 10% increase in a …