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 …

, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job … quantitatively rationalizes why differences in job-separation rates have primary importance in inducing differences in unemployment … across space while changes in the job-finding rate are the main driver in unemployment fluctuations over the business cycle …

' ‘search intensity' that is recovered from micro-data on individual unemployment-to-employment transitions, in line with recent …

Long-term unemployment more than doubled during the UK’s Great Recession. Only a small fraction of this persistent … increase can be accounted for by the changing composition of unemployment across personal and work history characteristics … participation flows can account for over two-thirds of the high level of long-term unemployment following the financial crisis …

volatility of employment and unemployment, produce too high a correlation between wages and employment, and do not capture the …

This paper uses variation in unemployment caused by the 2008 recession to analyse socio- economic gaps in graduate …

its successor Understanding Society. We find that the unemployment rate on leaving full-time education has large impacts …

In this paper we study the contribution of inflows and outflows to the dynamics of unemployment in three European … significance subsided again in the late 1990s and 2000s. In France the dynamics of unemployment are driven virtually entirely by …