changes in unemployment and income on the basis of regional panel data provided by Eurostat, the statistical office of the … highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …

unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high … unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies. Instead, there are few vacancies when unemployment is high because there is a low … cyclical behaviour of stocks and flows in the labour market also without search frictions. In periods of high unemployment …

that offer the advantage of reporting monthly transitions between employment, unemployment and economic inactivity for …

increased probability that employed workers become unemployed and with a reduction in worker flows from unemployment to …

monthly transitions among employment, unemployment, and nonparticipation. Immigrants are found to be first fired and first … hired over the business cycle, and the aggregate unemployment gap is caused by immigrants’ higher rates in the unemployment …

shifter in mothers' quits, we use a policy reform that extended the potential duration of unemployment benefits, which Italian …

-off policy of firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongst lower educated workers and the relatively … strong sensitivity of their unemployment rate to the business cycle. We find that lay-off rates decrease with education but … with a higher level of education can not explain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educated …