local unemployment growth is high---overall, negative home equity is not an important barrier to labor mobility. …

The duration of unemployment spells in Greece is investigated by looking at developments over time and by estimating … the 1990s reflects the rise in the overall unemployment rate and the increased probability of transition from short …-term to long-term unemployment. The limited number of new jobs, due inter alia to the stringent regulatory environment in …

.S. unemployment rates. We extract the common dynamics among unemployment rates disaggregated for seven age groups. The framework … allows analysis of the contribution of demographic factors to secular changes in unemployment rates. In addition, it allows … favor of the common factor and of the switching between high and low unemployment rate regimes. We also find that …

cross-country calibration of search models of unemployment. We find that cross-country differences in job-finding rates are … unemployment and labor force participation rates to impute steady-state worker flows for twenty-three of the countries in our …