German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data for the years 2000 to 2016, we analyse unemployment durations and unemployment …-term unemployment. Furthermore, the duration of unemployment prior to finding a new job rises with age. This pattern is particularly … between unemployment and an individual’s subsequent wage. This depressing impact is significant only for unqualified workers …

insufficient labour mobility to the west, in particular by low-skilled workers. As a result, jobs shortage and lack of …

relationship between the unemployment and the job vacancy rate. Using detailed administrative data on vacancies and registered … because mismatch increased substantially. Looking on the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a … substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for manual routine tasks as well as for the region of Vienna. …

picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The …

Inflation has become much less sensitive to movements in unemployment in recent decades. A common explanation for this … unemployment gap which underlie the OECD’s Economic Outlook projections. The former OECD specification can be characterised as a … backward-looking specification, the anchored expectations approach also tends to imply larger unemployment gaps for those …

contribution of each age group to total unemployment-rate differentials is also computed. An estimate of the sensitivity of age …-specific unemployment rates to the economic cycle is provided for OECD countries. France is one of the OECD countries having the highest …’s total unemployment rate differential with best-performing countries. Youth unemployment rate is especially sensitive to …

youth unemployment are persistent and especially affect the lower-skilled. Skill and occupational mismatches of vocational … time, the labour market has been responding faster to output shocks and output growth consistent with constant unemployment …-term unemployment. …

mobility induce significant resource misallocation. Employment protection is not particularly stringent, but the labour market …