We investigate hysteresis and persistence behaviour in the course of unemployment in EU countries and US states by … latter control for dependencies. The first generation tests indicate, that unemployment is persistent, but nevertheless …. Hysteresis in EU unemployment is attributed to the idiosyncratic, but not to the common component. In contrast, idiosyncratic …

negative relationship between the unemployment rate and the rate of vacancies, which is efficiently estimated using spatial … structural factors such as the evolution of long term unemployment, it is also affected by business cycle fluctuations. The role …

This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment …. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into self-employment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the … measurement errors induced by the pseudo panel structure. We find that previous (long-term) unemployment significantly increases …