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 …

Using German data this study applies an unobserved-components approach to disentangle the unemployment rate into a … trend component of unemployment, which triggers permanent reactions of the workers, is likely connected to a structural … effect. By splitting up the participation effect of changes in the unemployment rate our analysis differs profoundly from …

from employment into unemployment in April 2020 were due to the containment measures. In a second approach, we make use of … the unemployment effect coming from the separations margin. In sum, the lockdown measures increased unemployment in the …

forecasting German unemployment in the short run. Every month, the CEOs of the FEA’s regional agencies are asked about their … expectations of future labor market developments. We generate an aggregate unemployment leading indicator that exploits serial …

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 …