Individual unemployment spells are frequently interrupted by short casual employment, by participation in active labour … market policy (ALMP) measures or by periods outside the labour force. Such episodes end unemployment spells but afterwards … problem of being without a "real" job in the longer run. To better grasp this problem of repeated unemployment we analyse …

measuring the additional time spent in unemployment before being hired in a new occupation. Furthermore, I inspect the wage … changes after reallocation and find that workers who change occupations through unemployment face wage losses. Interpreted …

suggest that regional mismatch did not play an important role in explaining movements of aggregate unemployment. Across … industries and occupations, there was a decrease in mismatch unemployment from over 5 percent to below 4 percent (on the highest … disaggregation level), whereas the share of mismatch unemployment (across industries and occupations) within total unemployment …

this episode assume that a worker leaving unemployment moves into full employment. We ask where the unemployed actually … went. Using and merging two large micro data sets, we account for the decrease of unemployment by computing inflows and … outflows between unemployment and 16 other labour market states. Direct flows between unemployment and full employment …

in German unemployment is fully explained by hysteresis. The Great Recession was well absorbed because both hysteresis … effects and structural unemployment were substantially reduced after institutional reforms. In contrast, U.S. unemployment did …

This paper shows the evolution of mismatch unemployment over the period from 2007 to 2022 in Germany. A substantial … part of mismatch unemployment results from a misallocation on the qualification level rather than on the occupational level …. Taking the qualification level into account, an upward trend in mismatch unemployment in the aftermath of the COVID …