Despite a rapid decrease in unemployment and strong GDP and employment growth, real wages barely increased in Spain … over the period 1995-2006. An explanation of this lack of growth may rely on employment composition effects derived from … structural changes, such as the rise in the weights of employment in the construction and services sectors, the increase in …

This paper deals with the issues of unemployment in Russia …

worsening of unemployment conditions (discouraged worker effect). We find that married women whose husbands are unemployed or … likely to increase their labor force participation. However, a worsening of overall unemployment conditions appears to have a … discouraging effect on wives' labor supply response, wives tend to decrease their labor participation when unemployment rate in …

between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend … rate from unemployment to employment …The aggregate average unemployment rate in a given country is essentially the result of individual workers' transitions …

study the nature of the relationship between poor health and non-employment on a sample of German men aged 30-59. We propose … to model poor health and non-employment as interrelated risks determined within a dynamic structure conditional on a set … persistence in the dynamics of poor health and non-employment …

participates in nonstandard work arrangements. Such arrangements tend to lack long-term employment contracts and are often referred … of employment status and labor market slack. Using original survey data, we find that as of 2015 roughly 37 percent of … individual's employment status according to the definitions of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). While not the majority, a …

We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and … part-time work. Transitions from full-time to involuntary part-time employment dominate this dynamics, spiking up at …

unemployment risk alongside an additional risk of involuntary part-time employment. A calibration of the model consistent with U … unemployment. This finding relies critically on the much higher probability to return to full-time employment from part-time work … unemployment. Spells of involuntary part-time work are different from unemployment spells: a full-time worker who takes on a part …

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 … interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market …