develop a suite of models to provide a more timely estimate (nowcast) of euro area quarterly employment growth based on a … timely assessment of employment developments with unemployment rates and sentiment indicators containing most of the relevant …

Cross-country employment differences are concentrated among women, the youth, and older individuals. In this paper, we … document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to … aggregate employment differences across a large panel of European countries. We then build a life-cycle Diamond …

expected magnitudes of these effects on firms’ employment dynamics? In this paper, I simulate a theoretical model featuring … simulations show quite small employment effects of typical shocks to the number of vacancies in the local labor market and very … small effects of typical shocks to the number of unemployed. The employment effects are smaller in recessions than in booms …

performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …