labour market states: self-employment, employment, and unemployment. This enables us to assess the effects of changes in … unobservable individual heterogeneity, duration dependence, lagged duration dependence and state dependence. Three main results are … obtained. First, the aggregated unemployment rate is found to have a positive effect on the probability of becoming self …

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum …

This paper examines the depth and duration of the slump that invariably follows severe financial crises, which tend to … employment. The unemployment rate rises an average of 7 percentage points over the down phase of the cycle, which lasts on … average over four years. Output falls an average of over 9 percent, although the duration of the downturn is considerably …

In Portugal real wage flexibility, at the macroeconomic level, is noticeably higher, while unemployment duration is … lower, when compared to Spain. This suggests that the hardship of being unemployed is higher in Portugal. Unemployment … benefits and family insurance, which are the main buffer against unemployment and have played different roles in both countries …

mandated unemployment insurance (UI) and employment protection (EP). To illuminate the forces in these models, we study how UI … higher layoff taxes suppress frictional unemployment in less turbulent times, prevails in the models with labour market … impossible to include generous government-supplied unemployment insurance in that model without getting the unrealistic result …

We analyse the impact of increased immigration on labour market outcomes of natives in Germany using a dataset of … previous level. Especially for unemployment we find large effects of an increased foreign share. We conjecture that these … results might be spurious. Foreigners tend to be concentrated in lower unemployment areas but unemployment tends to be mean …

The purpose of this paper is to link the twin horns of the European economic dilemma - unemployment and a loss in … international competitiveness - to a lack of innovative activity. In Germany the Innovationskrise (innovation crisis) combines with … the Standortkrise (location crisis) and the Arbeitslosenkrise (unemployment crisis) to form a triad of economic challenges …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

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