standard model of equilibrium unemployment and search in the labor market by the distinction between age specific separation … to this, the unemployment rate in Germany and Japan will rise as a consequence of the increase in the share of elderly …

unemployment has a weak positive effect on the probability of filling a vacancy, while the number of vacancies in the local labor …

This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis", according to which the behavior of the … labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity and … the equilibrating mechanisms to ensure unemployment invariance; in particular, other markets may perform part of the …

policy-oriented studies have dealt with the evolution of unemployment in 2020, often country by country, this article focuses … on the evolution of unemployment as well as inactivity across European countries. Indeed, previous crises have typically … lead not only to more unemployment but also to larger numbers of discouraged unemployed and thus more inactivity. It …

This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way outof (long-term) unemployment …. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into selfemploymentand previous (long-term) unemployment on the basis …

This paper investigates the dynamic interrelationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand …, unemployment rates may stimulate start-up activity of self-employed. On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may … indicate increased entrepreneurial activity reducing unemployment in subsequent periods. These two effects have resulted in …