We examine long-term implications of unemployment for material conditions and well-being using the Polish sample from … to examine their correlation with unemployment at the time of the transition. We find that becoming unemployed in the … confirm the causal effect of unemployment on income and house ownership 20 years later, but find no evidence for a long …

We study the effect of trade liberalization and intellectual property rights (IPR) protection on the unemployment rate … migration. We find that bilateral trade liberalization decreases the relative unemployment rate of migrants when migration is … low and increases the relative unemployment rate when the migration rate is high. The results do not rely on assumptions …

firms, 3) partly offset by unemployment benefits, and 4) amplified by concurrent drops in partners’ earnings. On net …

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work, labour market … participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long …. Overall we find that Germany increased welfare as unemployment fell. …

Beveridge (full-employment-consistent) rate of unemployment (BECRU), derived from the unemployment-vacancies relationship. The … BECRU is the level of unemployment that minimises the non-productive use of labour. Based on a novel dataset for the period …. The European unemployment problem emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, as Beveridgean full employment gaps increased. In the …

unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … countercyclical net occupational mobility, the large volatility of unemployment and the cyclical properties of the unemployment …