Unemployment Clusters Across European Regions and Countries

Prevalence of hepatitis A across various countries in the Middle East, African and Eastern European countries

Unemployment and retirement and ill-health: a cross-sectional analysis across European countries

OBJECTIVE To determine the associations between different measures of health and labor market position across ten European countries. METHODS We studied 11,462 participants of the Survey on Health and Ageing in Europe (SHARE) who were 50-64 years old. Logistic regression was used to calculate the associations between health and other determinants and being retired, unemployed, or a homemaker....

Aggregate Risk Sharing Across US States and Across European Countries

The paper analyzes risk sharing across US States and across European countries. The empirical literature on this subject has failed to recognize that, as long as agents can borrow and lend, risk sharing should be measured with respect to shocks to the overall level of wealth, and not to current income. The contribution of this paper is to build an appropriate empirical measure of risk sharing f...

Why Are European Countries Diverging in Their Unemployment Experience?

Why Are European Countries Diverging in Their Unemployment Experience? During the nineties, unemployment has fallen in a number of European countries while it has remained high in others. The paper discusses potential causes for that evolution in light of recent economic research, emphasizing obstacles to reform due to political constraints, the prevalence of ideology, and agency issues within ...

Forecasting Unemployment Rate in Selected European Countries Using Smoothing Methods

Abstract—The aim of this paper is to select the most accurate forecasting method for predicting the future values of the unemployment rate in selected European countries. In order to do so, several forecasting techniques adequate for forecasting time series with trend component, were selected, namely: double exponential smoothing (also known as Holt`s method) and Holt-Winters` method which acco...