unemployment: labour unions, supply shocks combined with real wage rigidity, and automation and trade combined with real wage … rigidity. The fourth and fifth sections deal with deficient demand and labour turnover costs as sources of unemployment. The … final section deals with unemployment dynamics. …

unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the … recent rise in U.S. unemployment by exploiting two sources of cross-sectional data on vacancies, JOLTS and HWOL, a new …/3 of the total observed increase in the unemployment rate, whereas geographical mismatch plays no apparent role. The share …

Unemployment in Europe is a worrying phenomenon not so much because it hits 18 million people, but because it almost … unemployment rate. Thus, understanding the Italian unemployment and finding effective solutions for it, is useful to understand and …

In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow into unemployment, and outflow from … unemployment in five former communist economies and in the western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the … evolution of unemployment together with that of inflows into unemployment and vacancies. The comparison of the transition …

insight into the problem by examining the determinants of transitions between non-employment (or unemployment) and employment …, using the 1990-1996 survey years of the German Socio-Economic Panel. Individuals over fifty and women have much longer non …

We study a number of mechanisms through which an economy can be stuck at a high unemployment equilibrium because a poor … measures that have been undertaken to cure unemployment. The message of the paper is that curing the European unemployment …

Using data from the German socio-economic panel this paper analyses the labour market entrance of former apprentices … apprentices in their training firms is fairly low. Second, the transition to employment involves unemployment periods for many …

accompanying omitted variables bias to estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime. Using a state-level panel for the period …Previous estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime commonly omit determinants of criminal behavior that vary … with the business cycle, creating correlation between unemployment rates and the residuals in aggregate crime regressions …

negative duration dependence of exit rates from unemployment. Our model has a number of novel testable implications. For …