The anatomy of unemployment dynamics

European Economic Review

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1785-1824

  Abbring, Jaap H ^a   van den Berg, Gerard J ^b   van Ours, Jan C ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business cycle; Duration dependence; Seasonality; Unemployment; Unemployment duration

Indexed keywords

LABOR MARKET; SEASONALITY; UNEMPLOYMENT;

FRANCE;

EID: 0036914301     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-2921(01)00182-9     Document Type: Article

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