have changed, so that skills shortages coexist with relatively high unemployment rates. Governments have an important role …

German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data for the years 2000 to 2016, we analyse unemployment durations and unemployment … probability of finding a new job than workers with some kind of formal qualification, and hence face a higher risk of long …-term unemployment. Furthermore, the duration of unemployment prior to finding a new job rises with age. This pattern is particularly …

that offer the advantage of reporting monthly transitions between employment, unemployment and economic inactivity for … institutional framework. Female, young, low educated and low income workers are at highest risk of becoming jobless. Young jobless …