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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in … asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment, whereas linear models with Gaussian innovations preclude such dynamics. This … paper applies several tests for asymmetry to aggregate British, German and US unemployment data to assess the relevance of …

The paper critically examines the New Keynesian explanation of hysteresis based on the role of long-term unemployment … investigate the reversibility of long-term unemployment. Then we focus on episodes of sustained long-term unemployment reductions … results emerge: i) the evolution of the long-term unemployment rate is almost completely synchronous with the dynamics of the …