hire much more workers from unemployment than large firms, and that they do so at the very beginning of an economic … expansion. Later on in the expansion, overall hirings more frequently result from direct job-to-job transitions to larger firms …. Transitions from unemployment to employment at large firms are generally found to be more (pro-)cyclical. However, this stylised …

-third of the decline in hires and separations. Fourth, the decline in hires and separations is driven by the disappearance of …

performance, like unemployment or wage rates, show little departure from recent norms over the first few months of the crisis. The …

This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment … mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates has long neglected the question of how regional imbalances arise … unemployment regions have a higher, not a lower rate of reallocation; this suggests, in turn, that they do not suffer from low job …

performance, we apply a gross flow analysis based on EU-SILC longitudinal data. While in Spain increases in youth unemployment … entrants who failed to find a job. Furthermore, the analysis of flow transition rates suggests that the job-loss rates of young … uniformly, also to the jobfinding rates. Survival functions estimates point to prolonged unemployment duration and increasing …