The empirical literature on unemployment almost exclusively focuses on the duration of distinct unemployment spells. In … unemployment (defined as the total length of all unemployment spells over a 25-year period). This new perspective enables us to … answer questions regarding the long-term distribution and determinants of unemployment for West German birth cohorts 1950 …

The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market … has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply … mark-up stronger than in Germany in the wake of skill-biased technological change. The reason is that the unskilled …