ISBN: 3790815330
TITLE: Unemployment Dynamics in the United States and West Germany
AUTHOR: Markus
TOC:

1 Dynamics of unemployment, jobs and careers: a cross-national perspective 1
2 Dynamic perspectives on labor markets and unemployment 11
2.1 Perspectives on unemployment dynamics 13
2.2 A matching framework to explain unemployment flows 22
2.3 Institutions, restructuring, and unemployment dynamics 31
2.4 Summary 48
3 Statistical methodology 51
3.1 Data 51
3.2 Statistical analysis of event history data 58
3.3 Institutional inference and cross-national analysis 66
4 Dynamics of employment and unemployment in the United States and West Germany 71
4.1 The structure of unemployment 71
4.2 Labor market flows 77
4.3 Labor reallocation and turnover 84
4.4 Unemployment dynamics 92
4.5 Summary 112
5 Unemployment incidence: labor turnover in the United States and West Germany 115
5.1 Job losses and inflows into unemployment 116
5.2 A structural model of turnover dynamics 120
5.3 Unemployment risks and turnover components 124
5.4 Institutions and economic restructuring 137
5.5 Summary 146
6 Unemployment duration and reemployment rates: a supply-side perspective 149
6.1 Outflows from unemployment: jobs, training or withdrawal? 150
6.2 Interdependencies between exit routes: responses to low reemployment prospects? 169
6.3 Benefit effects revisited: Trade-offs between unemployment duration and reemployment outcomes 176
6.4 Summary 193
7 Opportunity, choice and reemployment rates: two-sided search and vacancy levels 197
7.1 Job competition: which jobs for the unemployed? 199
7.2 Sectoral effects on reemployment processes 204
7.3 Reemployment rates and the structure of opportunity 208
7.4 Structural sources of job opportunities 226
7.5 Summary 233
8 Summary and conclusions 237
Appendix 251
References 257
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