Based on labour force survey micro data for 2005-2014 this research evaluates labour market internal mobility in Latvia … external shocks. The flexibility of contract options and working hours, serve as a labour market mobility boosting mechanism …. The survival analysis indicates that the flows from/to employment to/from unemployment in Latvia are determined by the …

social insurance system. Supplementary information on establishments and on unemployment periods in which a claimant received …

We review the existing evidence on age discrimination and its effects in U.S. labor markets. First, we look at attempts … tells us anything about the nature and effect of age discrimination. Third, we document the disadvantageous positions of … older individuals in the labor force in terms of certain labor market barometers, including hiring, unemployment duration …

and find the extent of this potential discrimination against the immigrants. The study analyzes the data from the first …The immigrants are characterized on the average with higher human capital and are rewarded potentially less as compared … to their native counterparts. This question has motivated the study to analyze the immigrants-natives wage gap in detail …

the traditional survey-based unemployment rate versus big-data-based JPCs in capturing labor market transitions in the … predict individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment. Unlike with the unemployment rate, we not only examine … disaggregated levels. Our findings suggest that JPCs and the unemployment rate provide comparable predictive power for labor market …

historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …

Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates … substantially underestimate the true levels of unemployment, due to misclassification errors in labor force status in Current …. During the period of 1996 to 2009, the corrected monthly unemployment rates are 1 to 4.6 percentage points (25% to 45 …

Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates … substantially underestimate the true levels of unemployment, due to misclassification errors in labor force status in Current …. During the period of 1996 to 2009, the corrected monthly unemployment rates are 1 to 4.6 percentage points (25% to 45 …

unemployment statistics. This paper analyzes microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to … employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment of household production … alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia. -- alternative …

Unemployment information in individual level register data depends on institutional settings, administrative procedures … German legal unemployment definitions for the Sample of the Integrated Employment Biographies (IEBS). The IEBS belongs to a … show large differences in the number of spells and the unemployment duration across implementations. This suggests that …