heterogeneity persists throughout the duration of their unemployment spell. Notably, a considerable proportion of unemployed workers …

The beginning of the employment career is often associated with phases of unemployment. We argue that unemployment has … UK and Germany. While search and matching models argue that an unemployment phase might be used for an active job search … and might result in a better position, human capital and signalling theory predict status losses. The strongly skillbased …

. -- on-the-job search ; unemployment ; occupations …

-employment that has resulted. It then examines what consequences sectoral transformation has had for wages and unemployment, both at …

which differences in mobility explain differences in the probability of exiting unemployment between the two countries …

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 …

employment, unemployment and inactivity, from several angles. I examine aggregate conditional transition probabilities, job … contributions of job-finding and job-separation rates to fluctuations in the unemployment rate. Over the past cycle, the job …

Unemployment varies substantially over time and across subgroups of the labour market. Worker flows among labour market … states act as key determinants of this. We examine how the structure of unemployment across groups and its cyclical movements … last 35 years, we decompose unemployment variation into parts accounted for by changes in rates of job loss, job finding …