of the unemployment rate and of worker transitions. … makroökonomische Schocks in Ländern mit stärkeren Gewerkschaften zu kleineren Veränderungen in der Arbeitslosigkeit und den …

of the unemployment rate and of worker transitions. …

employment, informal employment, unemployment, and nonparticipation. We compute the contribution of each transition rate to …) Regarding gender differences: transition involving non-participation matters more in the variance of female unemployment and … Force Survey for the period 2003Q3 to 2020Q1. We examine quarterly transition rates in a four-state model with formal …

margin since it is driven by flows from permanent wage employment to unemployment. We also show that older, non-Latvian and …

contribution of the two transition rates to the volatility of unemployment, whereas the search shock implies a disproportionate …In this paper, we aim to provide a comprehensive view of the unemployment dynamics generated by different structural … shocks. We show that the relative contribution of the job finding and separation rates to the unemployment dynamics depends …

margin since it is driven by flows from permanent wage employment to unemployment. We also show that older, non-Latvian and …

hire much more workers from unemployment than large firms, and that they do so at the very beginning of an economic … expansion. Later on in the expansion, overall hirings more frequently result from direct job-to-job transitions to larger firms …. Transitions from unemployment to employment at large firms are generally found to be more (pro-)cyclical. However, this stylised …

increased flow into unemployment in a recession is mainly due to reduced hirings, and hence lower job-to-job transitions, rather … separations. We find that separations are relatively flat over the cycle, while accessions are markedly procyclical, and that the … than increased match separations. Our findings have important implications both for the way we view recessions and for the …

This paper studies the mechanisms driving the persistently high unemployment rate during the last recession and mild …, we propose a methodology to decompose changes in the unemployment rate into worker inflows and outflows across industry …