Unemployment Dynamics in the United States and West Germany

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.