, unemployment rate and market tightness as well as on the overall economic growth. We aim at determining whether a portion of … unemployment can be explained by either the increased public hiring or shrinking of the number of public employees in the last … decade. As the results suggest, in recessionary times the expansion of the public sector managed to keep the unemployment …

sharp increase in the incidence of long-term unemployment (LTU) during the Great Recession. We first show that compositional …), unemployment (U), and non-participation (N). We model the job-finding rates for the unemployed and non-participants, and we use … shifts in demographics, occupation, industry, region, and the reason for unemployment jointly account for very little of the …

sharp increase in the incidence of long-term unemployment (LTU) during the Great Recession. We first show that compositional …), unemployment (U), and non-participation (N). We model the job-finding rates for the unemployed and non-participants, and we use … shifts in demographics, occupation, industry, region, and the reason for unemployment jointly account for very little of the …