youth unemployment in Europe? Economic theory predicts that in the absence of perfectly competitive labour markets, changes … in the relative size of age groups will cause changes in age-specific unemployment rates. In light of the expected … areas of low unemployment, the empirical analysis employs an instrumental variables estimator to identify the causal effect …

the Beveridge curve in Austria. We find empirical evidence to confirm that the increase in the unemployment rate in …

Much research has been done showing that unemployment can cause crime, and that crime adversely impacts economic … find evidence for the possibility of a vicious cycle, with unemployment leading to higher crime rates and crime rates … raising unemployment. I further find that especially employment in low-skill service jobs is adversely affected by crime, that …

This paper studies the conditional patterns of unemployment dynamics in Germany. We employ a structural VAR model and …

In this paper I analyze the relationship between unemployment and criminal activity. Using a unique panel data set on … German counties covering the years 2003 to 2009, I estimate the effect of unemployment on crime rates for different kind of … effects. To circumvent the endogeneity of the unemployment rate in the structural equation of interest I interact two sources …

unemployment is very close to zero when unemployment is above its long term average but large and highly significant when below. We … unemployment. It cannot however match the persistence of the German unemployment rate. We conjecture that extending the model to …

considerably increased inflows from employment into unemployment, and 33 percent of the reduced outflows from unemployment to … unemployment in the short run by 80,000 persons …