producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment than most continental-European OECD-countries. It is argued that the …

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … aggregate measures of unemployment responses to temporary and permanent shocks. These measures are temporal (depicting how long …

-up financing on the structure of unemployment is of interest. We use a cross-country panel data analysis to examine how venture … capital investment influences disaggre-gate unemployment. As we expected, venture capital investment has different influences … on sectoral-, educational- and occupational-specific unemployment. We suggest, on the basis of the regression results …

using a SVAR model by inspecting how unemployment responds to the state of the economy. We show that deviations from Okun …

I argue in this paper that the estimation of wage curves and NAWRUs at the country level suffers from spatial …, compared to estimating at the underlying regional level. The distribution of regional unemployment rates within countries over … time is not mean-scaled. Regions with low unemployment rates are the main drivers of changes in aggregate unemployment. The …

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … aggregate measures of unemployment responses to temporary and permanent shocks. These measures are temporal (depicting how long …

present resulting from the Great Recession of 2007–09. We assess the human cost of increased unemployment by surveying what …