assess the importance of each worker flow to account for participation and unemployment rates over the life-cycle. We find that … substantially account for low participation and unemployment among old workers. Our results show that labor search models that do …We estimate life-cycle transition probabilities between employment, unemployment and inactivity for U.S. workers. We …

document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to … participation) and intensive margin (i.e., variable intensity) of search effort. The model attributes a major role to the production …

) Regarding gender differences: transition involving non-participation matters more in the variance of female unemployment and … employment, informal employment, unemployment, and nonparticipation. We compute the contribution of each transition rate to … fluctuations in unemployment and informality rates. We identify five stylized facts: (i) Nearly 40% of the fluctuations in the …

hire much more workers from unemployment than large firms, and that they do so at the very beginning of an economic …. Transitions from unemployment to employment at large firms are generally found to be more (pro-)cyclical. However, this stylised …

We provide new estimates on worker flow rates in and out of unemployment for Germany covering the last six decades. In … the 1980s, Germany emerged as the sick man of Europe with a labor market characterized by persistently high unemployment … rates. We attribute a substantial fraction of the rise in unemployment to a dramatic increase in inflow rates compared to …

increased probability that employed workers become unemployed and with a reduction in worker flows from unemployment to …