Unemployment Dynamics in the United States and West Germany Economic Restructuring, Institutions and Labor Market Processes
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
by Markus Gangl.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Heidelberg Physica-Verlag HD Imprint
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Physica
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2003
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(VIII, 292 Seiten 61 Illustrationen)
SERIES
Series Title
Contributions to Economics
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
1 Dynamics of unemployment, jobs and careers: a cross-national perspective.- 2 Dynamic perspectives on labor markets and unemployment.- 2.1 Perspectives on unemployment dynamics.- 2.2 A matching framework to explain unemployment flows.- 2.3 Institutions, restructuring, and unemployment dynamics.- 2.4 Summary.- 3 Statistical methodology.- 3.1 Data.- 3.2 Statistical analysis of event history data.- 3.3 Institutional inference and cross-national analysis.- 4 Dynamics of employment and unemployment in the United States and West Germany.- 4.1 The structure of unemployment.- 4.2 Labor market flows.- 4.3 Labor reallocation and turnover.- 4.4 Unemployment dynamics.- 4.5 Summary.- 5 Unemployment incidence: labor turnover in the United States and West Germany.- 5.1 Job losses and inflows into unemployment.- 5.2 A structural model of turnover dynamics.- 5.3 Unemployment risks and turnover components.- 5.4 Institutions and economic restructuring.- 5.5 Summary.- 6 Unemployment duration and reemployment rates: a supply-side perspective.- 6.1 Outflows from unemployment: jobs, training or withdrawal?.- 6.2 Interdependencies between exit routes: responses to low reemployment prospects?.- 6.3 Benefit effects revisited: Trade-offs between unemployment duration and reemployment outcomes.- 6.4 Summary.- 7 Opportunity, choice and reemployment rates: two-sided search and vacancy levels.- 7.1 Job competition: which jobs for the unemployed?.- 7.2 Sectoral effects on reemployment processes.- 7.3 Reemployment rates and the structure of opportunity.- 7.4 Structural sources of job opportunities.- 7.5 Summary.- 8 Summary and conclusions.- References.