collapse and rising unemployment, this paper stresses that the impact of the crisis is rather diverse, reflecting differences …

policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We performthe first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults … in France, exploiting a uniquelongitudinal dataset from the unemployment insurance system... …

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment …

Although an inverse relationship between sickness absence and unemployment has beendocumented in a number of studies … whether this empiricalregularity is due to changes in the individual costs of absence when unemployment increases …

lead to higher equilibrium unemployment via the generated real wage wedge. …

miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to be a strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important … reforms, the nature of the crisis affecting mainly export-oriented companies in Germany, the extension of short-time work, the …

have boosted German competitiveness, resulting in higher exports, higher production and lower unemployment. This … explains the gains in competitiveness but increases unemployment and inequality, and the subsequent labour market reforms lower … unemployment by lessening the reservation wage and expanding the non-tradable sector. The model replicates the developments of the …

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …