employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment of household production … unemployment statistics. This paper analyzes microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to … alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia. -- alternative …

estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment …This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … much lower in Romania and slightly lower in Estonia, and alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania …

empirical results of labour market research are likely to depend on the underlying legal definition of unemployment and its …Unemployment information in individual level register data depends on institutional settings, administrative procedures … German legal unemployment definitions for the Sample of the Integrated Employment Biographies (IEBS). The IEBS belongs to a …

employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment of household production … unemployment statistics. This paper analyzes microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to … alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia. …

correlation of unemployment and subjective life satisfaction. It is found that unemployed individuals do not only report … significantly lower concurrent satisfaction, but also recall reduced satisfaction from past unemployment well, and retrospectively … upgrade their past satisfaction scores. Therefore, the short-term negative effects of unemployment on individual life …

. Heterogeneity in unemployment and transition rates differ between East and West Germany, as well as between the sexes. In East …The aggregate average unemployment rate in a given country is essentially the result of individual workers' transitions … between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend …

In this study, we investigate the nexus between career risk aversion and unemployment duration based on German survey … from risk aversion on unemployment duration. However, we find significant effects when controlling for a non-linear or time … varying correlation between risk aversion and unemployment duration. Our results show that risk aversion is important when …

The empirical literature on unemployment almost exclusively focuses on the duration of distinct unemployment spells. In … unemployment (defined as the total length of all unemployment spells over a 25-year period). This new perspective enables us to … answer questions regarding the long-term distribution and determinants of unemployment for West German birth cohorts 1950 …