Exploring youth unemployment in Morocco: Evidence from micro-level data

Evidence from German Micro‐Level Data

We analyze the offshorability of jobs using the German Qualifications and Career Survey. The paper differentiates between outsourcing potential and international tradability and systematically uses a large set of potential determinants of organizational and spatial relocation derived from the existing literature on offshoring. Applying principal component analysis, we are able to co...

Youth Unemployment and Crime: New Lessons Exploring Longitudinal Register Data

This paper investigates the link between youth unemployment and crime using a unique combination of labor market and conviction data spanning the entire Swedish working-age population over an extended period. The empirical analysis reveals large and statistically significant effects of unemployment on several types of crime. The magnitude of the effect is similar across different subgroups of t...

Heterogeneity in Price Rigidity: Evidence from Primary Micro-Level Data*

We combine two unique data sets to document and explain a time varying price rigidity. The first data set consists of the time series of actual retail and wholesale transaction prices, and a measure of upstream commodity cost for 12 products in refrigerated and frozen orange juice categories collected weekly over a three-year period, 1989–1992, at a large midwestern supermarket chain. A special...

Evidence from New Micro Data

Combining Micro and Macro Unemployment Duration Data

We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the e ects of the business cycle on the out ow from unemployment. We allow the cycle to a ect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the total in ow into unemployment. We estimate the model using (micro) survey data and (macro) administrative data from France. The distribution of the in ow ...