Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20871 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 31
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using a retrospective monthly calendarium of individuals? major economic activities, this paper characterizes the monthly employment and unemployment rates and the monthly transition intensities between the states of employment, unemployment, and out-of-thelabor- force for the German labor market between January/February 1983 and November/ December 1994. The analysis provides a detailed portrait for demographic cells defined by gender, three age groups, and three education groups. Overall, the German labor market displays a high level of persistence, but important differences exist across demographic groups. By contrast, almost no changes can be observed across time, apart from a drastic decrease of male job finding rates during the early 1990s. When compared to France, the German labor market does not appear to be excessively rigid, although the differences with the fluid US labor market are very substantial.
Subjects: 
transitions
unemployment duration
labor market states
JEL: 
J21
J63
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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