Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to … panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected … just over 10000 observations, we predict changes in the unemployment rate 12 months ahead. We do so using individuals …

analyse the size and cyclicality of the flows between employment, unemployment and inactivity. I also examine job-to-job flows … unemployment rate. Although the job-finding rate has been more relevant over the past ten years, the job-separation rate was …

A decrease in female unemployment wholly accounts for the fall in total U.K. unemployment between its 1984 and 1993 … reduction in labor market frictions could mean that the natural rate of unemployment has fallen …

. First, the effect of housing tenure on the unemployed workers' labour mobility is studied using a discrete unemployment … endogeneity of the ownership status and institutional differences across countries. Third, post-unemployment wages are studied. We … do not find any effects of the unemployment spell duration and the geographical mobility on wages after controlling for …